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Sun Dec 2, 2012, 08:26 AM

19. Dishonest and self-serving

 

Funny that he doesn't openly mention the personal axes he has to grind with the scientific community, namely that they aren't swallowing his woowoo whole. He simply repeats the standard diatribe of the poor, oppressed crackpot about the rigid and dogmatic scientific establishment. Particularly ironic, since he tries to bolster his credibility by touting his own association with that same establishment and with the peer-review process. And then, of course, another round of boilerplate with the "science has been wrong in the past and science doesn't know everything" strawman, as if any of the scientists he's slamming have ever claimed otherwise.

And exactly where religion comes into it, except as an attempt to smear by association, is never very clear. He knows perfectly well the response to his lead-off sideswipe, but chooses to fling the poo anyway. Science has well-established and proven methods of self-correction, and over time, it gets closer to the truth and increases knowledge and understanding. Religion does not. Bad science gets better. Bad religion stays bad.

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