Recent content by Empty Planet

Wow. Not that anybody should give a damn, but man, if this is the average level of discourse on these boards, I can't imagine wanting to hang out here much. I got enough of this shoving-match business back in grade school. Yikes. I guess this is the answer to my original question. :confused:

Oh, without a doubt. The fact is, many (most?) people opt to go along with the status quo, expending only as much effort as they need to get by, but no more, and "scientists" are absolutely no exception. The scientists who can really be free with their thoughts as well as rigorous in their...

Rick, I really think you're confusing two orders of thought here. Skeptical thinking isn't a filter for everything you accept into your brain and everything one experiences. That would be absurd, as you point out. It's merely a set of tests designed to separate what has legs from what...

I'm completely with Dorkbot on this one (whoever thought I would ever write such a sentence! :eek: ). Critical thinking seems almost a forgotten talent these days, and what could be more important than knowing how to separate the wheat from the chaff? If every school spent a full year...

I agree completely with many of your points. Perhaps I misrepresented myself. I'm not advocating ignoring attacks. Not at all. But I do believe the charges can be specified, and each one addressed with brevity, and evidence presented, all in a brief and concise manner that will itself raise...

Wow, a lot of civil, thoughtful input here. Thanks all of you for that, especially David and Paul. I can see that the deeper I get into the backstory, the stickier the wicket. Hmm. :cool:

Ah, that's good to know! And I hadn't known about anyone dragging David B's name through the mud. Disappointing that someone would feel the need to do that, but to be expected, I suppose. I imagine it's quite difficult to keep one's self from being pulled into a "he said, she said" type...

Thanks for the response, CapnG! And yes, I agree with every point you made, save one. The citations. Yes, there are citations, but they are few, and reference only a very small percentage of the allegations actually made. In the first paragraph alone, I counted nearly a dozen (quite harsh)...

Hello one and all. This is my first post. I have a comment and a bit of a critique. My comment is laudatory though I'm afraid my critique, as critiques tend to be, is not quite so. The comment is that I'm quite delighted to have found The Paracast. I've tried a few of the other...