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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/04/2009 :  21:35:18   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Landrew

I was however referring to opinions based on conjecture about theories where hard data is less than adequate to deliver a high degree of certainty.
Which is exactly why some physicists consider String Theory to not even be science. Did you have something in particular in mind? What, in your opinion, is "a high degree of certainty?" 90%? 95%? 99%?
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Ricky
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Posted - 07/04/2009 :  21:49:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Landrew
Good point, repeatability can be considered a form of consensus. I was however referring to opinions based on conjecture about theories where hard data is less than adequate to deliver a high degree of certainty.


And what should we do when the acquisition of such data is known to be infeasible for our current state of technology, but that such information must be known to inform public decision? Should we just throw in the towel and ask a magic 8-ball?
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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