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You don't want to shovel fuel into a crackpot industry. That actually prevents real science from being done.
by Retra 12y ago
You don't want to shovel fuel into a crackpot industry. That actually prevents real science from being done.
- Intermernet 12y agoBeing snarky, but a lot of the world's consumer economy can be seen as shoveling fuel at crackpot industries. You're correct, but I'd rather a few million dollars going to this research than a few million dollars going to some magnetic-healing-band toting pseudo-guru. The "first world" wastes ridiculous amounts of money every second. Can we divert at least some of it to disproving crack-pot scientific ideas? It'd at least be entertaining (like Mythbusters on steroids!).
- issa 12y agoThis isn't an example of a "crackpot" theory. Everyone seems to agree that SOMETHING is happening. Even if the explanation is simply known-physics (which is overwhelmingly likely) there is still value in solving the mystery.