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To: koan who wrote (15277)	7/5/2006 4:06:03 PM
From: LLCF	of 78419

<DAK, scientific research is exactly the opposite of what you portend. My SIL and I discussed that last night. Scientists are so scared of being wrong that they UNDERESTIMATE problems not overestimate them!> That's not exactly the opposite of what I'm saying at all, in fact, it's a perfect corollary. I never commented on under or over estimations by scientists. I spoke of the result of the main point (difficulty in scientific method as currently practice in complicated systems and the ramifications of that... which you're right, is probably underestimation... thumb twiddling while waiting for data). Your point about scientists being scared is a great example of what I'm talking about... why are they scared? Cause they might be wrong. Why might they be wrong? Cause they know they can't explain their suspicions in scientific "proof". They're afraid of being labelled unscientific (heaven forbid) or worse, one of my favorites...{GASP!} a "charlatan "! Another point was that this has come about because of the god like status the term 'scientific proof' has. DAK

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