[extropy-chat] Elvis Sightings

[Damien Broderick]

At 12:21 AM 2/2/2007 -0500, John K Clark wrote:

>Either Science and Nature are full of shit and have been for 17 years,
>and all the most cited Physics Journals are full of shit, and all the Nobel
>Prize Physicists (except Brian Josephson) are full of shit

John, how do you square this absolute and apoplectic certainty 
concerning the wisdom of these gatekeepers with their attitude 
toward, say, potential drexlerian molecular manufacture (something 
you've defended with equal spirited vehemence for more than a decade 
even as Nobelists like Smalley jeered and denounced it), or the value 
of cryonics (has this topic been received enthusiastically by the 
arbiters of all true knowledge?), or the prospect of a technological 
Singularity? How full of shit do these journals and editors have to 
be to spurn ideas you apparently embrace as well-founded?

Damien Broderick