On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:51:09PM -0500, Ron wrote:
>Let's support getting definitive evidence.
Since nobody opposed the concept of contrary evidence, I don't suppose
you're fighting an uphill battle on that particular point.
It's fine to get preachy about supporting intellectual curiosity, but do
remember that it's a waste of everyone's (limited) time to give equal
time to all theories. If someone comes to you with an idea for a
perpetual motion machine your effort is probably better spent on
something other than helping him build it, regardless of whether that
somehow seems unfair. (Now if he brings a working model, that's a
different story...) Heck, even building a bunch of non-working perpetual
motion machines as a demonstration is a waste of time, because it's
always easy to say "well, if you had just...". That's precisely why the
person bringing the extraordinary claim is also expected to bring the
proof, rather than expecting that everyone else prove the status quo.
Mike Stone
