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If the scientific community were ever as pervasively and objectively wrong on an issue as the Christian community was on the whole Satanic Panic thing, there wo
by MartinCron 13y ago
If the scientific community were ever as pervasively and objectively wrong on an issue as the Christian community was on the whole Satanic Panic thing, there would be a fundamental loss of credibility. And yet...
- thaumasiotes 13y agoHuh? It happens all the time. Look at plate tectonics. Why would there be a loss of credibility? We don't remember Marie Curie as the idiot who poisoned herself.
- talmand 13y agoI would say you are making two mistakes. One is that the scientific community, or large part of it, has never been wrong about something. I guess that could depend on how you define what makes the community. Two is that everyone in the religious community reacted the same as the loudest complainers in the group. Again, depends on how you define the community. Loss of credibility doesn't necessarily come from being wrong, it depends on how you react to being wrong. Both communities have been wrong before, and both communities have on occasion reacted badly to it. But in any of those cases, I doubt there was any one thing that could be used to properly denounce the entire group for all time.