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BigPapaSmurf
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 Posted - 09/04/2007 : 11:04:16
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WARNING: PUT ON YOUR BRAIN STRAPS, THIS INFO COULD BLOW YOU AWAY
Heres a shocker from CNN.com
Men want hot women, Study confirms
And another from MSNBC.com
Study confirms, Rock stars have shorter lifespan!
And this mindboggler from BBC.news.co.uk
Study shows, Women like kissing more than men
Thats just from today
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"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 11:06:38 [Permalink]
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Laughing my ass off.
How about: "Lazy Scientists Prefer Foregone Conclusions"?
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 11:11:29 [Permalink]
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| Hmm I think that will require a 20 million dollar grant to confirm. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 17:41:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
How about: "Lazy Scientists Prefer Foregone Conclusions"? |
I presume 'Lazy Scientists' is a synonym for 'creationists'? 
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 18:13:41 [Permalink]
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Evidence of my long time assertion that some scientists, some times, participate in crap for a pay check. No different than any other group of people.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 18:40:42 [Permalink]
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| Evidence of my long time assertion that some scientists, some times, participate in crap for a pay check. No different than any other group of people. |
This isn't evidence of that at all. There are scores of studies done by scientists that have refuted ideas that had been considered common sense or obvious truth.
Edited to add: Also, these are just the headlines. What other more specific details were found? What initiated interest in the study in the first place. You are making a rash judgment based on very little information. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 20:33:30 [Permalink]
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Though there is humor here, there's also this point: Even the most obvious assumptions are not always correct. Proving the obvious (or possibly disproving it) is science, too.
What if the results had turned out to be "Men prefer homely women," "Drug use makes rock stars live 300 years," and "Women think kissing is yucky"?
It could happen.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 20:34:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
Evidence of my long time assertion that some scientists, some times, participate in crap for a pay check. No different than any other group of people. |
No, the evidence for that is in the IgNobel awards, which are handed out each year for research that should not be repeated. |
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 20:40:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Though there is humor here, there's also this point: Even the most obvious assumptions are not always correct. Proving the obvious (or possibly disproving it) is science, too.
What if the results had turned out to be "Men prefer homely women," "Drug use makes rock stars live 300 years," and "Women think kissing is yucky"?
It could happen.
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This reminded me of a joke:
An Irishman walked out of a bar.
It could happen.
Spoiler above.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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Ghost_Skeptic
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 21:08:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by marfknox
You are making a rash judgment based on very little information.
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Yet again. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 21:38:38 [Permalink]
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Well, I like your Irishman joke, Jerome.
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 09/07/2007 : 08:02:30 [Permalink]
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Here is another.
Kids Smarter than Chimps
| IN another case of researchers reporting the bleeding obvious, European scientists have found that children are smarter than chimpanzees. |
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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Study confirms: Researchers lack creativity
