I agreesergeriver wrote:
Ignorance.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/ … 21,00.htmlPureFodder wrote:
It seems increasingly like the best way to convince someone of anything is to tell them that scientists all think the opposite.
Global Warming
Creationism
MMR jabs (UK)
Thiomersal (US)
On the subject of the science behind car safety (crumple zones etc.)
Passive smoking
Curing cancer (no they haven't cured it and kept it quiet so they can sell more drugs)
9/11 conspiracies (yes steel does loose a lot of it's structural strength before it melts)
etc.
Why don't people believe scientists?
I think that sums this whole subject up don't you?
Last edited by =OBS= EstebanRey (2007-07-08 01:34:59)
"Man shall never fly, go faster than the speed of sound nor land on the moon." Developments that flew (pardon the pun) in the face of common thought, as well as the capricious attitudes of the more "malleable" sciences ("yeah, I'm just a doctor, but prozac is a great idea so here's a prescription!") and the pervasiveness of other short-lived pop and junk sciences undermine public faith in the irrefutability of contemporary scientific consensus.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-07-08 01:44:12)