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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (784097)5/9/2014 5:34:59 PM
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>> Apples and Oranges and a stupid argument.

It most certainly is not apples and oranges. It is precisely the same thing: You are ignoring the science in favor of consensus -- the very thing you are constantly railing against.

>> I am not going to waste my time on nonsense.

This is your history. When faced with difficult questions you cannot answer with any consistency, you deem those questions to be nonsense.

>> If you understood half of what you post you would notice I put it in terms of "probability" which is exactly what any good scientist would say.

When you accept a view because 97% of scientists hold that view, that is NOT probability and bears no connection with probability. It is a descriptive statistic, not an inferential one. If you want to say there is a 90% probability the 97% (if there IS a 97%) is correct, that's a different thing. I have not seen any post of yours do that.

But I can assure that whatever it is, it doesn't approach the 100% probability the 97% are right. There is simply no rational basis for such a conclusion. History is littered with the dead carcasses of ideas that 97% of this demographic or the other believed was correct.

It takes a special kind of scientific ignoramus to claim anyone is right about anything because 97% of some arbitrary demographic agrees.

If you can't back up the claim you ought to stop posting it. How you refuse to address that question on the basis that it isn't the same thing just suggests some kind of cognitive failure on your part.
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