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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: thames_sider who wrote (18769)7/20/2001 4:11:26 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Add to all that the fact that scientists do not usually kill each other because they disagree over theory. I know of no crusades where scientists from one country marched into other countries raping and pillaging in an effort to "educate" the citizens of other countries and bring them to the "light".

The 5 kingdoms are going to 8 (and already have for some textbooks, I believe)- and yet I know of no bloodshed relating to this! Amazing, I know.

There may be scientists who take their science as religion, just as there are some fanatic sports fans who clearly take the worship of athletics too far, but the scientists I have met were open minded, curious, wonderful people. I liked them a lot. And if it hadn't been for all that research (yawn) I would have loved getting a phd in plant pathology.

Repeatable results. Repeatable results. Repeatable results. That's what it's all about. Does that mean things will never be otherwise? Not for a true scientist (imo). A fact is only a fact as long as it remains a repeatable provable theory. Once it quits being repeatable, it's not a fact any longer (imo). I can drop a ball outside and prove the theory of gravity for myself. BUT the minute that ball flies upward instead of dropping back down (golden snitches not included) that isn't a fact anymore.
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