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To: Solon who wrote (11054)4/27/2002 11:50:21 AM
From: Rick Julian  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
Again, this appeal to authority, using your "SCIENTIFIC study" as "proof"of a concept is very shaky evidence, IMO.

Scientists, as are all other people, are subject to their own biases, and often their interpretation of data is unduly influenced by them. Their desire to: have their funding continued, to get their work published in peer journals or recognized in broader media, correct a perceived wrong . . .any number of motivations . . . can cloud their objectivity and hence the validity of their conclusions.

Then there's the Principle of Uncertainty Heisenberg postulated (but of course physics has no application to psychology, so I won't get into that.)

The scientific method is sound––it's the people who apply it that often make it's results suspect.

In an uncertain world, people love to have touchposts of "certainty", and science often fills this role. Science has become the religion of 21st century man.
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