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It's common for innovators to be mocked for their unconventional ideas.
by hackaflocka 12y ago
It's common for innovators to be mocked for their unconventional ideas.
- Asparagirl 12y agoIt's not "innovation" if it's just crap you spew on a blog. Double-blind peer-reviewed replicable studies or GTFO.
- hackaflocka 12y agoYep, those double blind peer-reviewed studies sure worked out for the Wright Brothers.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoYou appear to be confused as to the difference between science and engineering.
- hackaflocka 12y agoYou seem to be confused about the point I'm making, about innovation through self-experimentation.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoNo, you're still not grasping the difference between those situations. Double-blind trials are required in situations where the results are subtle enough to be colored by personal expectations and biases. Large-scale trials are required when reasonably different conditions (e.g., different human test subjects) could produce radically different results, when it's impossible to tell whether a single test subject is an average or an outlier. Neither of these conditions apply to the question "Can this airplane fly or not?" There is no subtlety there, no biochemical variations. The plane either flies or it doesn't, and either result is perfectly clear to even the most ignorant layman. As for peer review, the Wright Brothers had plenty of it: their peers showed up, looked at the plane in flight, and said "Yep, uh-huh, that's flying all right."
- hackaflocka 12y agoOh tell us please, wise one. About the difference.
- blafunke 12y ago"calories without smell cause weight loss" I knew it would be a laugh and a half after that.
- davidgerard 12y agohttp://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan