> Other than Juicero and some sweeping statements about the technology, energy, and pharmaceutical industries benefitting from government research, Tarnoff offe

> Other than Juicero and some sweeping statements about the technology, energy, and pharmaceutical industries benefitting from government research, Tarnoff offers little evidence to back up these claims. The "debunked" article is not scientific in 100% of the meaning of the word, that's a fact -- but if we go by the message of this "debunker" this means we must doubt every single deduction we make in our lives, on the grounds of what? Oh, none of us can't access all the information on the planet in real time. Legit as hell, lol. Let's face it, none of us is Skynet-like and yes we will always work with sparse data. Trying to make a good use of those is not a bug. It's a damn good feature. Far too often I am seeing a very perverse and backwards "arguing" on HN these days -- people grossly underestimate our innate human ability to draw rather good conclusions based on incomplete data, and constantly require "scientific proof" about pretty much anything. Science doesn't have data on most of what's happening on this planet however. And that won't change for a long time still. We make do with what we have. The rest are yelling "give me evidence!" in non-deterministic areas like country/world economics. Heh, OK.