Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2015-01-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Yuko Ogura looks to be about 16. But according to Wikipedia she was born November 1, 1983, making her well over 30 years old. She still looks like jail bait to me. When was this song videoed? 2004. She was 21, going on 14. As

[Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread H Veeder
Why smart people defend bad ideas http://scottberkun.com/essays/40-why-smart-people-defend-bad-ideas/ excerpt: The second stop on our tour of commonly defended bad ideas is the seemingly friendly notion of communal thinking. Just because everyone in the room is smart doesn’t mean that

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread James Bowery
Idiocy. Science is driven by experiment over argument. When you insist on contaminating every human ecology with every other human ecology you violate a central tenant of science: controlled experimentation. When failures occur under cirumstances of enforced contamination you are left with

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread John Berry
I think you mean to say science SHOULD BE driven by experiments over arguments. However if science were driven by experiments, this list would not need to exist. John On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 8:21 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Idiocy. Science is driven by experiment over

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread Axil Axil
SUSY (super symmetry) is not supported by experimentation but it is absolutely required to make the standard model work, and 10 billion dollars spent to find SUSY experimentally. How many smart people do particle physics? Is particle physics FUBAR?

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread Lennart Thornros
Happy New Year, Unfortunately science is not driven by experiments. I rather say that it is driven by politics. However, we could make 2015 the year we just do not listen to politics. The problem as described in the article emanates from our politicians in DC and corresponding places. We allow

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com quoted some good and bad ideas: On your own, avoid homogenous books, films, music, food, sex, media and people. What does non-homogenous sex mean? With other people? My wife would object. I do not see what music or food has to do with being open to ideas. Arthur

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Japanese popular music, being broadcast at this moment in the annual Kohaku Uta Gassen, is saccharine glop. Here is the ne *plus ultra* example. Watch if you dare; you risk kawaii (cute) apoplexy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAP6ogjTBSE This is so bad it is almost good. The

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread John Berry
I think that different countries of origin is an important thing, different first languages. These things have huge impacts on thinking. Which colours someone can see is effected by what language they are thinking in (proven in experiments). Qualified, and unqualified is another important one,

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread H Veeder
James, it sounds like you are having a bad day. harry On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:55 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: I think you mean to say science SHOULD BE driven by experiments over arguments. However if science were driven by experiments, this list would not need to exist.

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread H Veeder
watch more French cinema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAohexT0Ho Harry On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com quoted some good and bad ideas: On your own, avoid homogenous books, films, music, food, sex, media and

RE: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2014-12-31 Thread Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Well, Jed, Yuko Ogura looks to be about 16. But according to Wikipedia she was born November 1, 1983, making her well over 30 years old. She still looks like jail bait to me. When was this song videoed? Fifteen years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuko_Ogura Oh my gosh! She's married