But Jed, a scientist with that kind of unconscious block is severely handicapped! You could be getting anomalous results in your experiments and you refuse to explore the real cause because of 'cognitive dissonance'! You certainly won't be getting any breakthroughs from them. the essence of the scientific endeavor was succinctly stated this way:
"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Cognitive Dissonance pretty much kills the second half of that sentence, and thus, kills *real* discovery. -Mark From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:44 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:"The Space Show" revisited: A Carpet Bombing approach to debating Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net> wrote: I said I lost respect for him "as a scientist". I still respect him as being a most intelligent human being. But science is all about exploration, discovery and explanation of the anomalous. He is exceptionally well educated in science, has published numerous papers on nuclear physics, and yet, doesn't care to even read peer-reviewed papers about a very interesting, and possible very important, anomaly. that kind of human behavior **from a scientist** defies all rational thought. It is not rational. This person has a mental block with regard to this specific subject. Probably he is every inch the scientist with regard to most other subjects. People are selectively irrational. This is something my mother often dealt with as a social scientist designing public opinion questionnaires. <snip> - Jed
