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Buick

VestanPance wrote: »

Don't go bringing facts into this!

Not before I've got my Vestan's sugar pills cure all diseases project off the ground.

arguments thrive where facts are scarce

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Buick wrote: »

[STRIKE]arguments[/STRIKE] Stupidity thrives where facts are scarce

Fixed that for you.

But for me, believing that everything has to be explainable by mathematical equations and statistics is too narrow.

So what is it? Magic? :cool:

With the bee, I believe all that was done during research into aviation techniques. There's a lot of work been done into the flight mechanisms of hummingbirds too. The origin of some hypotheses is often totally unrelated to the final project involved, which is quite chuckle-worthy when you think about it.

HBS x

VestanPance

Buick wrote: »

arguments thrive where facts are scarce

The facts aren't scare though.

Buick

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Stupidity thrives where facts are scarce
Fixed that for you.

So what is it? Magic? :cool:

You seem irritated by thoughts and ideas that don't fit in with your viewpoint and this I think is typical of scientists. You are educated to think in a certain way, and that's fine. But it's not the only way. There are other viewpoints other than your own which are just as worthy and relevant.

VestanPance

Buick wrote: »

You seem irritated by thoughts and ideas that don't fit in with your viewpoint and this I think is typical of scientists. You are educated to think in a certain way, and that's fine. But it's not the only way. There are other viewpoints other than your own which are just as worthy and relevant.

No scientists work with facts and absolutes. They perform, review and critic properly conducted research to determine absolute truths and discover how and why things perform as they do.

Anything that can't be proven by such methods is not an absolute truth. Generic view points mean nothing. They are the realm of the uneducated and filled with stupidity.

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Buick wrote: »

You seem irritated by thoughts and ideas that don't fit in with your viewpoint and this I think is typical of scientists. You are educated to think in a certain way, and that's fine. But it's not the only way. There are other viewpoints other than your own which are just as worthy and relevant.

I'm irritated when people believe things that haven't been proven over things that have. Especially when they throw good money away on said things!

HBS x

Buick

VestanPance wrote: »

Generic view points mean nothing. They are the realm of the uneducated and filled with stupidity.

I think this opinion says more about the person holding it than it does about the 'stupid' people.

Buick

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I'm irritated when people believe things that haven't been proven over things that have. Especially when they throw good money away on said things!

HBS x

I see where you're coming from, but it's their money and if it helps them, who are we to say they shouldn't pay for a treatment that benefits them?

VestanPance

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I'm irritated when people believe things that haven't been proven over things that have. Especially when they throw good money away on said things!

HBS x

Fools and their money are easily parted.

Errata

GlynD wrote: »

Well apparantly it can. http://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=1862

I'm not subscribing to the theory myself but it seems that some people can "think" themselves well.

Thoughts on their own cannot cure cancer, any more than they can cure a broken leg or baldness. Treatment coupled with patient's attitude - their thoughts - may, although unbundling thoughts from treatment to provide clear clinical evidence of how much effect the thoughts have is impossible.