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Will you address my claim that there is a teapot orbiting Jupiter? If not, why not?

• colordrops 5y ago
  My point was about a broad categorization, not individual bad ideas and theories. Building up a general intolerance to a vague and broad category called "woo" ends up in you calling a non-zero percentage of viable theories "woo" because it's outside of your world model, rather than being contradictory with evidence. It's the science equivalent of labeling someone a "conspiracy nut" in politics, where CIA manipulation of the media (a real thing with plenty of evidence) gets bucketed with reptilian overlords to unfairly denigrate the former valid theory. There is absolutely a ruling class with personal interest in the status quo within the scientific community that applies unthinking skepticism to perfectly valid ideas to protect their own agendas. I'd recommend listening to Dr. Avi Loeb's thoughts on this.