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| Circlotron:
--- Quote from: raptor1956 on May 20, 2022, 09:38:40 pm ---1. Stupid people can now 'publish' nonsense on the internet -- there have always been stupid people but now they have multiple platforms to spread the stupid. --- End quote --- Once upon a time if someone wanted to publish an idea they wrote a book and then looked for someone to publish it. If the publisher didn't think it would sell because it was obviously nonsense then it was end of story. Literally. Now, with the internet, that barrier has been removed. |
| Circlotron:
--- Quote from: raptor1956 on May 23, 2022, 12:44:04 pm ---so to is the Young Earth Creationist types that claim <snip> the Earth is about 6000 years old. --- End quote --- Last time I looked, uranium had a half life of about 1.5 billion years. The fact that you can find lead in the ground would seem to indicate that uranium had been there for several half lives at least. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: TimFox on May 19, 2022, 06:03:48 pm ---https://getpocket.com/explore/item/6-tips-to-help-you-detect-fake-science-news?utm_source=pocket-newtab --- End quote --- That article is good, which is ironic because it was originally published in The Conversation who have previously published articles with questionable scientific rigour. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote from: Circlotron on May 23, 2022, 01:01:04 pm --- --- Quote from: raptor1956 on May 23, 2022, 12:44:04 pm ---so to is the Young Earth Creationist types that claim <snip> the Earth is about 6000 years old. --- End quote --- Last time I looked, uranium had a half life of about 1.5 billion years. The fact that you can find lead in the ground would seem to indicate that uranium had been there for several half lives at least. --- End quote --- I don't know the details of the Creationist theory, but I reckon that they must assume things popped into existence fully formed (since there hasn't been time for nature the other theory to do its stuff). Thus there may well be a half-life, but that doesn't preclude everything starting off halfway through, so to speak. |
| Gregg:
This post reminds me of the Shit Mountain Theory --- Quote ---It says, essentially, that an idiot can produce more shit than you can shovel. --- End quote --- --- Quote ---This theory has been expressed in a similar and certainly more concise way, by the Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini, under the name of "Bullshit asymmetric principle", and whose statement is more or less this: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is at least an order of magnitude higher than that needed to produce it. --- End quote --- https://www.eugy.it/en/coffer/50-shit-mountain-theory.html |
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