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gilber34 wrote:
> 
> On 8/10/2015 1:29 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> >>
> >> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) writes:
> >f nobody ever responded to the Starmaker?
> >>> Then I wouldn't see his silly posts at all.
> >>
> >> Me too.  That would be so cool...
> >
> >
> >
> > it seems  that the community is filled with 'wishful thinkers'...a source of junk science.
> >
> >
> >
> > science fiction writers are another source...but that is to be expected.
> >
> 
> the media, reporters who cannot understand basic science, because the
> reporters failed science and math courses and had to take a lower path
> into journalism, where subject knowledge is not needed.


"basic science"??? 

https://www.google.com/#q=define+basic+science

You don't acutally believe members of the 'scientific community' understand...."basic science"????


Definition of BASIC SCIENCE. : any one of the sciences (such as anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, pathology, or biochemistry) fundamental to the study of medicine.



Why are you bring up ....the study of medicine???


Maybe You don't understand...basic science.


And certaintly 'science journalist' don't understand...any science!