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Date Posted: 19:27:06 01/20/13 Sun
Author: George
Subject: Re: do you psuedo restorationist folks hold that eden was here?
In reply to: Wally 's message, "Re: do you psuedo restorationist folks hold that eden was here?" on 08:58:10 01/20/13 Sun

>Before working on my Doctorate, I "thought" I
>understood what science was all about? I read it, it
>said what it said, it must be true! I was told that
>in order to get things published, very smart people
>critiqued it! So, errors were unlikely. Only to
>discover that formatting, logic were the major
>drivers.
>
>THEN I was expected to create research. I walked
>through the process. I discovered that a lot if
>medical research isn't standardized, that things
>deemed unimportant can be ignored, sometimes flaws in
>design, sometimes the wrong math was used, and thus a
>lot of variability!
>
>Anyways, that was the start of my journey to looking
>at science from a different perspective.
>
>LOL still trying to find my niche. I have read over a
>dozen books on the art of figuring out how to create
>my niche. I think that I am discovering that my life
>is half over!
>Wally
>

How right you are, Wally. I have discovered that human bias, even in science, is impossible to weed out completely. But at least we are not doing as Aristotle, and simply "guessing" what would happen, then pronouncing it true without any experimentation whatsoever.

I'm not sure half my life is over, but half my hair is over.

George

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