WHICH Scientific Consensus?

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  1. yardmeat

    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    Nah, that sort of unhinged conspiracy nonsense was the same thing people said about the smallpox vaccine. It's hardly new.
     
  2. Pycckia

    Pycckia Well-Known Member

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    I think you just made that up.

    BTW look who got rich and who got poor this past year.
     
  3. yardmeat

    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    It's pretty much always been the line of health science denialists: "It's all plan by the Illuminati to control us!"
     
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    Science is a process for explaining observable phenomena. I doesn't really predict but is sometimes used by people to predict things.
     
  5. Pycckia

    Pycckia Well-Known Member

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    And it works pretty well, too. Look at how we got played with the myth of heterosexual aids.
     
  6. yardmeat

    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    . . . heterosexuals get AIDs. It's a virus. For real, yo. So is COVID, no matter what those looney blogs have told you. But if your agenda matters that much more to you than the facts, feel free to keep squeezing those fringe conspiracy theories for all they are worth.
     
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    Science is incapable of prediction in and of itself. It only gains that power via formalization into mathematics.
     
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    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    . . . making predictions is absolutely necessary in order to engage in the scientific process to begin with. You can't test anything without predictions.
     
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  9. Pycckia

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    The odds of a heterosexual getting aids from heterosexual intercourse are less than a the odds of a man getting breast cancer.
     
  10. yardmeat

    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    The odds of a homosexual woman getting it are even less than that. Still, it's a virus. And, like male breast cancer and COVID, it isn't a myth.
     
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    And the covid predictions are pretty much failures.
     
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    And yet the msm had us all in a panic about heterosexual aids becoming rampant.
     
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    I didn't say otherwise. Reread my post.
     
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    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    Far more accurate than the looney conspiracy theories that the paranoid fringe is selling.
     
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    Category error: Conspiracy theories are not predictions. Failed predictions are why people distrust science and are attracted to conspiracy theories. Why are the scientists lying to us, we wonder.
     
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    You can't subject yourself to reasoned inquiry without making predictions that can be tested and falsified. Without that, all you have is cultish dogma, which is exactly what the conspiracy theorists are force-feeding to their gullible masses.

    The scientists aren't lying to you. The looneys from your blogs are.
     
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    Did you mean exploitation?
     
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    Of course you can. "Let's check this." "What do you think the result will be?" "I don't know. Let's find out."
    Science experiments with mysteries all the time.
     
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    Wikipedia can answer that question for you:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists'_views_on_climate_change
     
  20. yardmeat

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    All of which is, scientifically speaking, COMPLETELY ****ING USELESS unless you can use PREDICTIONS to formulate testable hypotheses and set up experiments. "Let's find out" is ONLY SCIENTIFIC WHEN IT INVOLVES TESTABLE HYPOTHESES, WHICH ARE ARRIVED AT THROUGH PREDICTIONS. Sorry, about the all caps, but this used to be science 101, even in Junior High, so it frustrates me to see people act like the only "real" science is complete guesswork that can't subject itself to experimentation or falsification in any way.

    This is literally science 101. You have to PREDICT what observations would bolster or falsify your HYPOTHESIS, or it isn't SCIENCE. It's just guesswork.
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    As Reiner Fuellmich is discovering through his investigation, the World Economic Forum headed by Klaus Schwab are the obvious main perpetrators, and many in the medical industrial complex like Tedros and Fauci and Gates and Pharma are major players.

    Not being a member of any of the above, I can only speculate about their precise motives, but as in all such endeavors through the history of mankind, power and money must be prime considerations in their perverse plans.
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    Mind blowing that you would believe such crap. Scary too as I assume you are what is considered a typical adult.

    and how does the World Economic Forum compel every country on teh globe to joint the conspiracy?

    have you no clue how crazy you sound?
     
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    Thanks for the insightful post, your best!
     

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