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To: JohnM who wrote (253100)	6/17/2014 12:31:10 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541487

They invoke it LIKE a religion. People with absolute belief in anything are dangerous idiots. But I don't believe that absolutely... If you look at the great accidents of history- they involve people with a fanatical belief in something running amok. That doesn't reflect on science (which we all like very much, when it comes to our technology, or going to the doctor) it reflects on the misplaced hard belief in incomplete data. That should always be fought- everywhere. But no data is more incomplete than religious "data"- and thus, it trains people to believe, rather than test, and be skeptical. If every episode of scientific idiocy had had a health cadre of skeptics leading a charge against it- I'd argue we wouldn't have had so many nasty episodes. Skeptics are what keep society balanced- but you need to breed and nurture them, and this country doesn't do so well at that. It's a deep failing.