23 Sep 2014, 7:14 pm
23 Sep 2014, 9:37 pm
23 Sep 2014, 10:05 pm
From the artcle:
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More than 100 adult volunteers were asked in an online survey to rate 42 professions by their perceived warmth (a mixture of friendliness, trustworthiness and good intentions) and competence.
"Warmth"??
From people that I don't know (and several that I do know) "warmth" is at least initially seen as a ruse of some kind and often is. I don't think I even have a "warmth" setting.Quote:
Fiske and Dupree found that the biggest risk factor for public distrust of scientists was the perception that the main motivation of these researchers is gaining grant funding.
I can empathise with their skepticism here.Quote:
"People are not idiots," Fiske said in a statement. "The public's issue with science is not necessarily ignorance."
Imagine that. 
After the initial warm up, the article shamelessly dives right into the message they are really trying to push: "Climate change".
23 Sep 2014, 10:10 pm
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24 Sep 2014, 4:53 pm
Humanaut wrote:
We're heading for a new ice age.
What are your evidences? So far the data show that the opposite is happening.
24 Sep 2014, 6:43 pm
24 Sep 2014, 6:46 pm
24 Sep 2014, 6:58 pm
The_Walrus wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Well...scientists say that the earth is more than 6000 years old, and that the Earth goes around the Sun. So how can you trust them?
Next they'll have us believe that the Earth is not flat, and that there is something wrong with smoking cigarettes!
Next they'll have us believe that the Earth is not flat, and that there is something wrong with smoking cigarettes!
I was happy to accept the Earth going around the sun, but I think they went too far when they asked us to accept that North America exists.
Actually I recently heard a scientist somewhere complain that Americans will ask him if "kangaroos really exist"!
24 Sep 2014, 7:50 pm
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24 Sep 2014, 10:12 pm
I like scientists so much, I married one. 
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25 Sep 2014, 1:25 am
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25 Sep 2014, 1:27 am
luanqibazao wrote:
I like scientists so much, I married one.
Really? Then good for you!
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25 Sep 2014, 1:27 am
25 Sep 2014, 2:26 am
LoveNotHate wrote:
You can't trust anyone, so yeah you can't trust science .... how far are you willing to go to believe ...
Cigarettes were once ?physician? tested, approved
http://www.healio.com/hematology-oncolo ... d-approved
Vaccines make you gay
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/0 ... 92953.html
Gian Paolo Vanoli, a 70-year-old Italian scientist, claimed that vaccines are causing homosexuality.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued an ominous warning to all expecting mothers.
"The latest scientific evidence shows that the sons of pregnant women who consume chicken are more likely to have smaller penises because of a chemical found in the birds? flesh."
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/p ... penis-size
Nigerian Scientist Uses Magnets to Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong
http://io9.com/nigerian-grad-student-us ... 1326215449
"means that man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same."
Researchers publish Big Foot genome
http://io9.com/5984205/researchers-publ ... es-founded
Animal Planet: Mermaids exist
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351217
Do I even need to cite all the times that scientists have claimed to have proven "cold fusion"?
Cigarettes were once ?physician? tested, approved
http://www.healio.com/hematology-oncolo ... d-approved
Vaccines make you gay
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/0 ... 92953.html
Gian Paolo Vanoli, a 70-year-old Italian scientist, claimed that vaccines are causing homosexuality.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued an ominous warning to all expecting mothers.
"The latest scientific evidence shows that the sons of pregnant women who consume chicken are more likely to have smaller penises because of a chemical found in the birds? flesh."
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/p ... penis-size
Nigerian Scientist Uses Magnets to Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong
http://io9.com/nigerian-grad-student-us ... 1326215449
"means that man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same."
Researchers publish Big Foot genome
http://io9.com/5984205/researchers-publ ... es-founded
Animal Planet: Mermaids exist
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351217
Do I even need to cite all the times that scientists have claimed to have proven "cold fusion"?
Let's see: were any of those published through a reputable journal and did any of them undergo a rigorous peer review process? It's not the fault of the legitimate scientist that people who consume such material don't know how to distinguish between critical and mediocre material. And it's not as if they haven't been pointing this out for some time now. I mean really: "publish bigfoot genome in brand new journal they themselves founded". That's one strong indictment against scientists because we all know that they just come up with new journals on the spot and publish it themselves without submitting their work to peer review
Not to mention that one of the main reasons for the peer review process is that the experts participating in the review will not necessarily all have the same opinion, ergo their primary concern is the quality of research methodology and not so much the conclusions themselves.
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