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[William Flynn Wallace]

am in pain but the Scientific Method said I'm not in pain then I'm still in
pain and the Scientific Method was wrong.

 John K Clark
You are really stretching it now.  Whatever method was used to tell you you
are not in pain was not a well-designed study.
However - I do recall some calculations were made by ??? which told them
that bumblebees could not fly, so you have a point.

bill w

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 12:24 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 12:35 PM William Flynn Wallace <
> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>And if they believe in even 5% of what Trump says or believe in
>>> "alternate facts" then they don't believe in the Scientific Method, and for
>>> me that outranks even libertarian philosophy; the only thing that outranks
>>> that is direct experience.
>>
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> >*Direct experience can be very misleading*
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>
> By Direct Experience I mean immediate sense perception. If I hit my finger
> with a hammer (quite likely as I'm not very good with tools) and am in pain
> but the Scientific Method said I'm not in pain then I'm still in pain and
> the Scientific Method was wrong.
>
>  John K Clark
>
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