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Her entire premise seems to be "it's impossible to know for sure what happened in the past, so there's no point in speculating about it". This... doesn't seem
by commandlinefan 6y ago
Her entire premise seems to be "it's impossible to know for sure what happened in the past, so there's no point in speculating about it". This... doesn't seem very academic to me.
- throwanem 6y agoWhat's unscientific about falsifiability?
- jasonpeacock 6y agoThe problem isn't that we're speculating about it, the problem is that we're basing (scientific) assumptions about current behavior on speculations about past behavior which has no evidence to support it.
- commandlinefan 6y agoSo... "it might be wrong, therefore it's definitely wrong"?
- jasonpeacock 6y agoMore like "there's no evidence that supports it, so why are we assuming it's right?" There's no way to test any of their theories, and there's no historical evidence to support them. It's more like religion than science.
- mercer 6y agoThat's pretty rich coming from an anthropogenic climate change denier.
- commandlinefan 6y agoWell... you're right but... how did you know I was an anthropogenic climate change denier (although we prefer the term "skeptic")?
- mercer 6y agoI wrote a Chrome plugin that highlights new comments and that allows me to tag users. I spend too much time on HN :P. Was fun to build though, and surprisingly 'useful'.