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Post by cjm on Dec 2, 2018 5:17:17 GMT
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Post by Trog on Dec 2, 2018 8:35:24 GMT
Every now and again I get hit with the realisation of how defective a huge number of people's bullshit-detectors are. Erich von Däniken, Graham Hancock, this Menzies fellow - there are oodles of con-artists making their fortunes from peddling the most unmitigated hogwash, which is evidently believed by an appreciable number of people. I suppose it comes with a lack of general knowledge - particularly scientific general knowledge. (Where 'scientific' is used very loosely, here, basically as a stand-in for the ability to appreciate, understand and follow causal and probabilistic reasoning. Scientists, in short, know about Occam's razor). |
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Post by cjm on Dec 2, 2018 8:43:21 GMT
Every now and again I get hit with the realisation of how defective a huge number of people's bullshit-detectors are. Erich von Däniken, Graham Hancock, this Menzies fellow - there are oodles of con-artists making their fortunes from peddling the most unmitigated hogwash, which is evidently believed by an appreciable number of people. I suppose it comes with a lack of general knowledge - particularly scientific general knowledge. (Where 'scientific' is used very loosely, here, basically as a stand-in for the ability to appreciate, understand and follow causal and probabilistic reasoning. Scientists, in short, know about Occam's razor).
I guess it is romantics like me who keep the fairy tales alive!! Quite a devastating destruction of Menzies' claims that.
On another note: I have reached the conclusion that causality is a non-scientific term as well!
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