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In reply to the discussion: Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? [View all]Adrahil
(13,340 posts)70. Uhhh... NO. You did not read the concluding remarks.
It has NOTHING to do with that. It's because the models did not properly consider other terms sufficiently. If you're gonna make a claim like that, at least read the whole paper.
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My own uninformed opinion is that its influenced by poor science reporting and lack...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#5
That's like "my cancer isn't spreading as fast as the doctors said, so I must not have cancer"
progressoid
Mar 2016
#20
1. They're not reasonable and 2. An outsider describes it best - Richard Dawkins said
MillennialDem
Mar 2016
#17
I don't think numbers have changed, with the intertubes though every fucking idiot has a voice
snooper2
Mar 2016
#40
It's amazing that the press miscovers most actual science, and then hypes the junk.
HuckleB
Mar 2016
#43
It took me about 3 years to convince a friend of my who is smart that "reality TV"
LiberalArkie
Mar 2016
#51
To begin with, science is often not very well taught in high school in the first place.
SheilaT
Mar 2016
#55
You've outlined the ways that pseudoscience promoters push mistrust of science.
HuckleB
Mar 2016
#64
And then you continue to add to the ways that pseudoscience demonizes logic and science.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#80
and you are labeling my argument without supplying a cogent and coherent rebuttal.
kwassa
Apr 2016
#91
You don't have an argument. The "science was wrong fallacy" is, well, a fallacy.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#99
You failed to point out that its the scientific process that corrects for these errors...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#87
If they are doing it due to conflicting evidence or the lack of evidence, that's one thing...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#92
Because there is no law in nature that states people have to agree with you or use common sense.
Rex
Mar 2016
#68
Why do so many reasonable people think they will win the lottery when the value goes up?
Rex
Apr 2016
#88
This is a large part of the problem, one reason it is hard to talk logic to RWingers.
Rex
Apr 2016
#117
To some degree, the "everybody wins" mentality says that the opinion of people who
Thor_MN
Apr 2016
#118