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Re: Junk Science

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Am 10.08.2015 19:26, schrieb The Starmaker:
> How do you protect yourself from Junk Science?

Depends on who 'you' is.

If you have authority assisted by military force, you could round up 
'junksters' and send them to 'reedjucation.

If you are 'boss' of some sort and you have them in your staff, you may 
eventually fire them.

But in both case you have a problem to identity 'junk science'. This is 
because 'junk science' had to be distinguished from 'good science'. And 
actually only scientists could do that (and not the boss).

These very same scientists are actually those, who produced that same 
junk, hence would actually fire (or round up) 'good' scientists (because 
of heresy).

This problem is called 'relativity' (of junkness) and shows, that you 
cannot chose the same people as jury about the benefits of what they 
have produced themselves.

Only there are no other people available. And those that had actually 
been available are now silenced, because they have been burned at the 
stake (for the crime of heresy).

This also wards off other potential heretics.


TH

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Junk Science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 10:26 -0700
  Re: Junk Science Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-10 10:30 -0700
    Re: Junk Science djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-10 17:45 +0000
      Re: Junk Science Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-10 12:18 -0600
        Re: Junk Science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 11:29 -0700
          Re: Junk Science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 17:38 -0700
            Re: Junk Science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 21:52 -0700
      Re: Junk Science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 11:21 -0700
    Re: Junk Science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 11:15 -0700
      Re: Junk Science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 22:16 -0700
  Re: Junk Science Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2015-08-29 07:24 +0200

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