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To: one_less who wrote (985590)

12/4/2016 1:55:22 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580479

You and I are not qualified to judge a lot of people. The way we need to judge them, is by how the world academic community judges them. And then learn from the ones rated highest.

That is usually the correct thing to do. But you keep wanting to follow the crazy people instead.

You and I don't have the knowledge to be critical of your Heisenberg, Lindzen, or Krugman for that matter.

So the smart thing to do is to see what the world's smartest people think about those people.

The right wing folks time and again do not understand their own ignorance. They feel perfectly comfortable challenging people who are light years ahead of them intellectually with simplistic ideas.

It is like Sen. James Inhoffe bringing a snowball to the Senate floor to prove there is no global warming. The right wing has so many simple things wrong.

That is why only 6% of scientists are Republican and 80% lean Democratic and 51% are liberals. They know the Republicans are out to lunch.

The first thing anybody has to do walking down the path to wisdom, is have some idea of their own ignorance.

Following Oakham's razor is a good way to start. It simply say's the most obvious answer is usually correct. What the world's academic community thinks about any particular person ideas is usually correct.

Not uncle Joe mouthing off at Thanksgiving dinner who has never bothered to read a book in his life.

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So, you don't know what he said but you are certain he is wrong. OK, how open minded of you. <sarc>