RE: [compost_tea] Re: OT: Science and Nature

From: Jason Kalka <shortstop42000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 19:34:01 -0600

Yes, be open to new ideas but be skeptical until proven wrong.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Wilson <thegoodjob_at_hotmail.com>
Sent: February 04, 2012 2:17 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [compost_tea] Re: OT: Science and Nature

 
Exactly

 --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "letitgrow69" <letitgrow69_at_...> wrote:
>
> Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis -- w=
hich is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism -- especially_ a=
lly rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested -- and you're =
not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A =
judicious mix is what we need. - Carl Sagan
>
> Probably my favorite line from the essay.
> Timbuktu
>
>
> --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Tim Wilson" <thegoodjob_at_> wrote:
> >
> > Indeed, if it is Sagan you mean. Also at the forefront of skeptical sc=
ientists and associated with one of my mentors and good friends, Barry Beye=
rstein who helped me to learn scientific method over 35 years ago.
> >
> > http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/saganws.htm
> >
> > "I hold there's a kind of Gresham's Law that applies in the confrontat=
ion of science and pseudoscience: In the popular imagination, at least, the=
 bad science drives out the good. What I mean is this: If you are awash in =
lost continents and channeling and UFOs and all the long litany of claims s=
o well exposed in the Skeptical Inquirer, you may not have intellectual roo=
m for the findings of science. You're sated

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