<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Here is the problem with scientists writing anything for publication: Waffling. Aren't you tired of reading scientific articles and finding something to the effect at the end of "more research is needed". People want facts. They don't want to wait for more studies, all of which will say 'more studies' again and again. Yes, that science. Reasonable. Skeptical. Frustrating.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Imagine passing on science news:'Hey Joe, it could very well be that .....blah blah blah - or on the other hand it could be blah blah - or maybe even ....blah, but we really don't know now. Stay tuned. We need more subjects, more different subjects, more researchers who don't believe in what they are testing, more researchers who have no connections with industry, better statistics, ad nauseam. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_3257218020431401100WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>>…</b> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] what did we learn?<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>>…"Hi BillW, filter your sources more carefully…Do you wish to feed your mind on drivel generated by those who majored in… journalism? Neither do I."<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>..Dang! And here I thought people only picked on English majors! Lol <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Picked on? I have no heartburn with English majors. Many of them go into teaching, which is a most admirable aim in life. I like English majors. They cause no harm that I can see. Journalism majors on the other hand, have a scandalously disproportionate influence on society and in my opinion generally a corrosive one.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Any picking on that I do does not apply to English majors, but is sincere ridicule and scorn, specifically aimed at journalism majors. That’s not a legitimate field of study in my opinion. News should be written by scientists, technologists and engineers. There is sufficient talent there, and far greater insights.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…<a href="https://www.prairiehome.org/story/1997/06/14/the-lives-of-english-majors.html" target="_blank">https://www.prairiehome.org/story/1997/06/14/the-lives-of-english-majors.html</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There ya go, Garrison Keillor was an English major. He has given us so much. There’s a life well lived. He goes on about Dave Barry, the writer who influenced my style considerably, also an English major.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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