| Chris Noble 2006-10-25, 4:20 pm |
| David Canzi -- non-mailable wrote:
> In article <4539c375$0$5065$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>,
> js <me@nospamplease> wrote:
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> You should probably get hold of "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by
> Neil Postman. He goes into considerable detail about how the
> nature of a medium affects the types of messages the medium can
> carry.
>
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> i viewed part of a 9/11 video, once. One of the weak arguments
> it rushed past claimed that one of the towers fell in 8 seconds
> (based on measuring a seismograph trace), and a billiard ball
> dropped from the top of the tower would have taken 9 seconds to
> hit pavement, "therefore" the collapse of the tower must have
> been a controlled demolition.
>
> Some people who passed their high school physics courses are
> probably rolling their eyes right now.
>
> There is no way the "Conspiracy" could make a building collapse
> faster than free fall, no matter what super-duper space-age
> explosives they used. But if the video makers rush past this
> and the viewer failed high school physics or has fallen into a
> TV trance, he might not notice this physical impossibility.
>
> It's interesting that you are both an AIDS dissident and a
> 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Do you have any other colourful
> "alternative" beliefs?
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2...job_and_ral.php
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2...oky_komment.php
> I saw a previous AIDS dissident poster,
> Hayek, also posting in sci.physics.relativity opposing the theory
> of relativity, and another who spent time here, Wolfgang, spent
> time in sci.physics.relativity arguing against relativity and
> in talk.origins arguing against evolution. I could give more
> examples of people who adhere to extreme "alternative" theories
> in more than one field of science.
>
> None of these people are geniuses who have somehow seen through
> fallacies that have fooled conformist scientists for decades.
> That's what they want to believe, and that's what they want the
> rest of us to believe, but it is plainly shown not to be so when
> they fall for stupid arguments like the "faster than free fall"
> argument from the 9/11 video I described above. Something else
> is going on here.
>
> I once asked in this group: How does it feel to be right when
> everybody else is wrong? Nobody took the bait -- nobody answered
> it. If they had, I would have followed up with a second question:
> How does it feel to be wrong when everybody else is right?
> I believe most dissidents will get the right answer to the first
> question but not the second one.
Interdisciplinary denialism.
Once you've swallowed the idea that the vast majority of scientists are
wrong about something and you have special access to the truth then
"rethinking" everything else is no problem.
Chris Noble
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