Originally Posted By: The Dread Pirate Westley


Scientists change their minds on a regular basis and don't feel at all bad about it. Why? Because yeilding to the facts only betters one's self and mankind at large.



actually this is a fallacy, the major scientific community only changes it's position when enough people call bullshit and shoot holes in their self made continuity, in the mean time they scuttle opposing viewpoints, and actually slander the opposition.


a good case in point is global warming, there is significant counter evidence to the entire thing yet scientist who speak out are nearly blacklisted. it serves the scientific community to have this made up crisis in order to get panicked people to fund "more study" into it.


only once people know that they are full of shit do they finally change their tune, which is real difficult since they get to make up the rules of the game....