Reply To: Questions regarding DPF.

[Phil’s Dad]

Henning wrote: I don’t follow this discussion because it disgusts me, but there’s a quite fitting article on Ars Technica:

When science clashes with beliefs? Make science impotent.

Okay, I’m telling you “read this”, whilst not reading what you’ve written above. Yes I know, it’s quite ignorant, but that’s how I am. And it’s how everyone here is…

I am indeed ignorant of many things. For example how you can be disgusted by something you have made a point of not reading. I had thought that Breakable and I were having a dignified exchange of views. Putting that aside I have done as you asked and read the article.

I have no doubt that its central message is true but would caution that it applies to both parties in the title of this thread. Therein lies my only problem with the article itself; that it identifies the scientific community as an homogeneous entity; whereas there are differing opinions within it (as Mr Learner would testify regarding the origins of the universe for example). I would have liked within the passage at least the level of honesty that recognises that you can reject a scientific argument without rejecting the whole of science. Without it the author of the piece falls into the very trap so eloquently described.

Sorry, truly, if my response disgusts you.