Reply #73: I failed to mention there are those who are actively encouraging this sort of thing...

[Hugin]

and they are well served by the hollow Corporate Media... All of those unsubstantiated insights, feelings, talking-points, and etc.

I began to suspect this was the case during the primaries... When scant attention was paid to the real ground-truth issues. Months went by without so much as a nod in the direction of fact finding.

But, running things rationally is difficult work... and, oh-by-the-way, sometimes, you're going to be wrong and/or not all that popular.

Thinking back over the last couple of years, I can really discern those who have the people's best interest at heart and those who are in it as a 'game' or to serve their own interests.


Cut and paste the word 'economics' in for 'science' and this is still very relevant advice...

'He recommended that researchers adopt an unusually high level of honesty which is rarely encountered in everyday life, and gives examples from advertising, politics, and behavioral psychology to illustrate the everyday dishonesty which should be unacceptable in science. Feynman cautions that "We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in cargo cult science."'

But, alas... I honestly believe the masses will continue to look for the easy way... The way seeming to be the least amount of actual work of waving their torches on their mock airfields and speaking into their coconuts... Hoping for deliverance in the form of some magical cargo to find it's way out of the sky.