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It's a blog post, not a scientific paper, so you best get over the informality. Debunking bad science is a thing that Phil Plait does, so if it sounds like he h
by mistercow 14y ago
It's a blog post, not a scientific paper, so you best get over the informality. Debunking bad science is a thing that Phil Plait does, so if it sounds like he has an axe to grind, that's why.
>I don't know why scientists just can't keep an open mind. Maybe life comes from outer space. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe diatoms are in meteorites. Maybe they aren't. No one really knows, do they?
That's called argument from ignorance. It's a fallacy.
- retrogradeorbit 14y agoWell then he really needs to clean up his writing style. I think his writing is terrible. If he wants to persuade people to be sceptical of the original paper he'll have a lot more success if he tones down the colloquial attacks. It's just way over the top. Unless it's just preaching to the converted.
- mistercow 14y ago>I think his writing is terrible. OK, that's fine, but he's one of the most popular science bloggers out there, so I doubt he's going to change it.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoDan Brown is one of the most popular writers on Earth.
- mistercow 14y agoYes, so what we can certainly say for Dan Brown, if nothing else (and really, there is nothing else), is that his writing style is accessible.
- cgh 14y agoI disagree. I think his writing is light and funny while taking on the important business of debunking crackpots. A serious-minded article would only give the ridiculous Journal of Cosmology credibility.
- nollidge 14y ago> he'll have a lot more success if he tones down the colloquial attacks That you, personally, do not enjoy his writing style implies almost nothing about the preferences of rest of the English-reading humans on this planet.