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Scientific method is not "Believe anyone who says anything", otherwise I have a whole gaggle of homeopathic remedies and time cubes to sell you (prove that they
by misnome 13y ago
Scientific method is not "Believe anyone who says anything", otherwise I have a whole gaggle of homeopathic remedies and time cubes to sell you (prove that they don't work, to my standards, of course).
Article then claims professional researchers are saying:
> "Because I personally can’t verify this issue is true, the issue must be false. QED."
whereas I read it more as:
> "This is a really crazy, far out idea, and all of my professional experience leads me to be highly skeptical of the idea unless I see some more reliable evidence".
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, as always.
- dsl 13y agoThis. No research has been presented at all. Just a rambling twitter stream. No respectable researcher starts spewing statements about a new threat without doing enough analysis first to at least publish something to support claims. BadBios could just as likely turn out to be an art piece.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoAm I the only one who thinks it will be pretty neat if it turns out to be performance art? Sadly the longer it goes without something the more difficult it is to believe. Time will tell of course, hell of a way to ruin a reputation though if its bogus.
- munin 13y agothis will probably ruin nobodies reptuation, our memories are very short and similar things that have happened in the past have been forgotten or swept away.