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<blockquote data-quote="SeniorGeek" data-source="post: 213431" data-attributes="member: 4823"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I had hoped this thread might last a while, so things would not get too quiet while I was gone. I am glad it entertained, since that was part of the purpose.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Jones, I do not think it made you look silly, but you dead-ended the debate days before I returned!<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/sneaky2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sneaky2:" title="Sneaky2 :sneaky2:" data-shortname=":sneaky2:" /></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The website that brazenbrown presents is a parody, but it is based on the real thing. The actual Flat Earth Society has trouble keeping their official website working...<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Lol :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I suppose that, instead of this thread, I could have just asked a couple of questions: </span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Why do people who complain that scientists are motivated by politics resort to using political arguments (or scientists motivated by opposing politics) to attempt to show the science is wrong? </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Whose idea was it to decide scientific matters by polling a populace with low scientific literacy? </span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">[Please do not take the low-scientific-literacy thing personally. The U.S. is close to the average of developed nations...but some say that is because we hire so many of the good scientists away from other countries. Embarrassingly, <strong>France</strong> consistently beats us in reading, math and science!]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If I had put this in the Global Warming thread, it would have been too obvious. I even considered my original title for the thread too obvious: "Do we know what shape the world is in?".</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeniorGeek, post: 213431, member: 4823"] [FONT=Verdana]I had hoped this thread might last a while, so things would not get too quiet while I was gone. I am glad it entertained, since that was part of the purpose.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Jones, I do not think it made you look silly, but you dead-ended the debate days before I returned!:sneaky2:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]The website that brazenbrown presents is a parody, but it is based on the real thing. The actual Flat Earth Society has trouble keeping their official website working...:lol:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I suppose that, instead of this thread, I could have just asked a couple of questions: [/FONT] [LIST] [*][FONT=Verdana]Why do people who complain that scientists are motivated by politics resort to using political arguments (or scientists motivated by opposing politics) to attempt to show the science is wrong? [/FONT] [*][FONT=Verdana]Whose idea was it to decide scientific matters by polling a populace with low scientific literacy? [/FONT][/LIST][FONT=Verdana][Please do not take the low-scientific-literacy thing personally. The U.S. is close to the average of developed nations...but some say that is because we hire so many of the good scientists away from other countries. Embarrassingly, [B]France[/B] consistently beats us in reading, math and science!][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]If I had put this in the Global Warming thread, it would have been too obvious. I even considered my original title for the thread too obvious: "Do we know what shape the world is in?".[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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