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2020-10-20 at 2:52 AM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly allowed lard-ass lanny the luxury of lapping the loins-leviathan while the little lad larps as a laotian ladyboy lapdancer---.-.-.-.-.---.-----.-.-.--.-.--.---.-.-.-.-.-.--.----.----.-.-.-.------.-.-.-..-.-.-.--.-.----------(banned) you suck the cock
do you prefer white cock or nigger cock
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2020-10-20 at 3:09 AM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly allowed lard-ass lanny the luxury of lapping the loins-leviathan while the little lad larps as a laotian ladyboy lapdancer---.-.-.-.-.---.-----.-.-.--.-.--.---.-.-.-.-.-.--.----.----.-.-.-.------.-.-.-..-.-.-.--.-.----------(banned) good answer. youve been trained well
you will have no opinion other than the one i tell you to have
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2020-10-20 at 3:53 AM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly allowed lard-ass lanny the luxury of lapping the loins-leviathan while the little lad larps as a laotian ladyboy lapdancer---.-.-.-.-.---.-----.-.-.--.-.--.---.-.-.-.-.-.--.----.----.-.-.-.------.-.-.-..-.-.----.-.----------(banned) someone trained you well
i cant wait to see how well you learned to suppress your gag reflex
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2020-10-20 at 1:45 PM UTC
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2020-10-20 at 2 PM UTC
Originally posted by gadzooks I know all about the replication crisis. In fact, I had that in mind while I was saying what I was saying.
Science is not 100% perfect, but it's self-adjusting.
You will occasionally see bad studies pop up, but they are always the exception and never the typical case.
The big, politically charged questions, like vaccinations and climate change for example (and probably COVID too), are replicated with scrutiny to explicitly deal with the replication crisis.
To be fair, though, I do not claim the scientific knowledge base to be 100% correct, just damn near that number. Enough to instill confidence, at least.
gadzooks, im afraid you dont get how it works at all despite your tenure at the university.
your biggest problem is your obsession with certainty and being right, which science cannot and will not ever do, it can never prove something to be right, no matter how many times you replicate the result. you can replicate it a billion fucking times and still not be absolute.
see the white swan fallacy, no matter how many times you bring me a white swan, it will never prove they are all white. but guess how many times i have to demonstrate a black swan to send your theory to the fucking grave? ONCE.
science is not knowledge, science is not "facts", its a PROCESS and it can only prove whats wrong.
thats what nobody in this estrogen self-absorbed special snowflake age ever wants to be, fucking wrong about something. scariest fate ever!
continue with this attitude and youll always be gullible to junk science. -
2020-10-20 at 2:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace It's not a real picture… Handwriting is literally the same.
that isnt the only example i have seen, my own school pulled similar stunts. for 5x2 i wrote 10 and got marked wrong because it shouldve been 2+2+2+2+2=10. so bullshit like that isnt far fetched in the least, they certainly do this shit. -
2020-10-20 at 2:07 PM UTC
Originally posted by Kev gadzooks, im afraid you dont get how it works at all despite your tenure at the university.
your biggest problem is your obsession with certainty and being right, which science cannot and will not ever do, it can never prove something to be right, no matter how many times you replicate the result. you can replicate it a billion fucking times and still not be absolute.
see the white swan fallacy, no matter how many times you bring me a white swan, it will never prove they are all white. but guess how many times i have to demonstrate a black swan to send your theory to the fucking grave? ONCE.
science is not knowledge, science is not "facts", its a PROCESS and it can only prove whats wrong.
thats what nobody in this estrogen self-absorbed special snowflake age ever wants to be, fucking wrong about something. scariest fate ever!
continue with this attitude and youll always be gullible to junk science.
I don't know what to call them, but there is a certain subset of the population who are öbsessed with "Science!" and that obsession does seem to stem entirely from a crippling fear of being wrong or seen as stupid. Confronting these people with the reality of how little they actually know has much the same result as an atheist confronting a hardcore evangelical. -
2020-10-20 at 2:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai I don't know what to call them, but there is a certain subset of the population who are öbsessed with "Science!" and that obsession does seem to stem entirely from a crippling fear of being wrong or seen as stupid. Confronting these people with the reality of how little they actually know has much the same result as an atheist confronting a hardcore evangelical.
narcissists.
for the record, i dont think gadzooks is one to a clinical degree, hes just a product of the times he was raised in. they gave him the right tools and materials but taught him the wrong attitude. -
2020-10-20 at 2:32 PM UTC
Originally posted by Kev gadzooks, im afraid you dont get how it works at all despite your tenure at the university.
your biggest problem is your obsession with certainty and being right, which science cannot and will not ever do, it can never prove something to be right, no matter how many times you replicate the result. you can replicate it a billion fucking times and still not be absolute.
see the white swan fallacy, no matter how many times you bring me a white swan, it will never prove they are all white. but guess how many times i have to demonstrate a black swan to send your theory to the fucking grave? ONCE.
science is not knowledge, science is not "facts", its a PROCESS and it can only prove whats wrong.
thats what nobody in this estrogen self-absorbed special snowflake age ever wants to be, fucking wrong about something. scariest fate ever!
continue with this attitude and youll always be gullible to junk science.
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2020-10-20 at 2:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by Kev narcissists.
for the record, i dont think gadzooks is one to a clinical degree, hes just a product of the times he was raised in. they gave him the right tools and materials but taught him the wrong attitude.
Yeah, I wasn't really referring to gadzooks. He's one of the most level headed people around here, and he's definitely more willing to reflect on things than vast majority of human beings. If there's a cult of middling IQ normies who have themselves holed up in what they feel is the Unassailable Bastion of Truth and Knowledge known as Science!, Gadzooks is in a farming village outside the bastion's walls. -
2020-10-20 at 2:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai I don't know what to call them, but there is a certain subset of the population who are öbsessed with "Science!" and that obsession does seem to stem entirely from a crippling fear of being wrong or seen as stupid. Confronting these people with the reality of how little they actually know has much the same result as an atheist confronting a hardcore evangelical.
Not really. Most people who 'believe' in science understand that it doesn't always get the full picture. I mean, we used to put Uranium in toothpaste because science hadn't yet figured out it wasn't safe.
But some things are just... clear. I'm not going to pretend to know enough to talk about quantum physics. But the consensus science we've had, for hundreds of years, with thousands of studies done, is not so much a leap of faith. There is no 'belief.' We know that masks stop bacteria, viruses, and other contaminants from spreading. We knew it back in 1918 during the Spanish Flu, back in 1817 during the Cholera epidemic, and we know it in 2020 with the coronavirus.
The problem with anti-science people is that they mistake scientific consensus for populist consensus, and use that rationale to dismiss anything that doesn't agree with their political views. They think these massive peer reviewed institutions are corrupt and pushing false information, and somehow THEY are the only group of people who can see that. There is never any sort of hard review on this. It's all social media, news clips, etc. These idiots really think they are smarter than the educated professionals who went to school to study so that they could work in this field you claim to know more about.
Conservatives are just retards, the lot of them. -
2020-10-20 at 2:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai Yeah, I wasn't really referring to gadzooks. He's one of the most level headed people around here, and he's definitely more willing to reflect on things than vast majority of human beings. If there's a cult of middling IQ normies who have themselves holed up in what they feel is the Unassailable Bastion of Truth and Knowledge known as Science!, Gadzooks is in a farming village outside the bastion's walls.
Again... the mistake you make is thinking people trust 100% in Science, as conservatives do God or Trump.
People trust in *established* science which has been tried and tested and proven.
You know what happened when the flat earthers try to prove their theory right? They fail. -
2020-10-20 at 2:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai Yeah, I wasn't really referring to gadzooks. He's one of the most level headed people around here, and he's definitely more willing to reflect on things than vast majority of human beings. If there's a cult of middling IQ normies who have themselves holed up in what they feel is the Unassailable Bastion of Truth and Knowledge known as Science!, Gadzooks is in a farming village outside the bastion's walls.
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2020-10-20 at 2:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace Again… the mistake you make is thinking people trust 100% in Science, as conservatives do God or Trump.
People trust in *established* science which has been tried and tested and proven.
You know what happened when the flat earthers try to prove their theory right? They fail.
You cant prove a theory right, you can only prove it wrong, i literally just went over this. if a theory is right then it cant be falsified, if it cant be falsified then by definition it is not science. -
2020-10-20 at 2:50 PM UTC
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2020-10-20 at 2:50 PM UTCAre you actually legally retarded? Let me know if you are.
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2020-10-20 at 2:59 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace Again… the mistake you make is thinking people trust 100% in Science.
People trust in *established* science which has been tried and tested and proven.
I think the vast majority of people place a lot of trust in science, including traditionally religious people. And yes, they don't all trust in it 100%. But there is a particular subset of people who do have unquestioning faith in science, and for whom the fact that science can change (and that actual scientists often delight in finding out they're wrong) is an afterthought; a get out of jail free card like "god works in mysterious ways".
You don't have to be smart or reasonable to have the right opinions. And when stupid unreasonable people get ahold of science, they treat it stupidly and unreasonably and believe in it to a stupid and unreasonable degree. The PopSci industry probably couldn't exist without people like that, who want to know the latest "facts" and believe in them just as deeply as they do something as rigorously tested as the standard model of physics (until it turns out they're wrong, and they start believing the new thing which is okay because god works in mysterious ways).
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace You know what happened when the flat earthers try to prove their theory right? They fail.
And you know what that makes them? Better scientists than some guy who just believed in the established facts without critical thought, skepticism, or the gathering of empirical data to support their belief. As long as they adjust their worldview to match the facts as established by their observations, proving themselves wrong is commendable.
