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Title: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 21/12/2022 16:25:27
When registering for this forum, a person should be asked the question "Do you like science?".
Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: Origin on 21/12/2022 16:30:25
Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 21/12/2022 16:25:27
When registering for this forum, a person should be asked the question "Do you like science?".
Yes.  If they answer no they should be arrested and put in jail.
Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: evan_au on 21/12/2022 19:49:50
There are certainly aspects of science that people may not like, and discussing them is worthwhile (more on the chat pages, probably):
- Lack of reproducibility should be a concern for all scientists
- There will be concerns about how much money (or how little money) is spent on science, or on what type of science
- As I understand it, Phds & Post-Docs are often treated like slave labour, with no future certainty
- Some of the applications of science may cause concerns
- And that's even before you get into risk/benefit analysis (eg for climate change or vaccination, to quote some recent examples)

Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: alancalverd on 22/12/2022 00:08:50
All parasites hate science. Nonhuman parasites tend to be killed by the application of science. Human parasites rely on an absence of skepsis - the very stuff of science - to protect their bank balance.
Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: Zer0 on 23/12/2022 19:17:27
Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?

No.

P.S. - Better to be Hated for what you are, than to be Loved for what you are Not.
(random internet quote)
Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: hamdani yusuf on 27/12/2022 10:39:21
Quote from: Zer0 on 23/12/2022 19:17:27
P.S. - Better to be Hated for what you are, than to be Loved for what you are Not.
(random internet quote)
It's French author André Gide.
Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: paul cotter on 27/12/2022 12:16:35
Origin, putting them in jail would bankrupt any country, given the amount of anti-science currently circulating. I suggest putting them in stocks and fire rotten tomatoes, rotten eggs and maybe the occasional durian at them , until they recant their heresy.
Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: hamdani yusuf on 27/12/2022 13:10:04
Quote from: paul cotter on 27/12/2022 12:16:35
Origin, putting them in jail would bankrupt any country, given the amount of anti-science currently circulating. I suggest putting them in stocks and fire rotten tomatoes, rotten eggs and maybe the occasional durian at them , until they recant their heresy.
It won't be a problem for a country where the vast majority of its citizens are scientifically literate.

Violence will only strengthen their current believes, and support their suspicions that you have no valid reason other than repressive authority.
Title: Re: Should people that hate science be banned from posting?
Post by: alancalverd on 28/12/2022 08:25:32
Quote from: evan_au on 21/12/2022 19:49:50
Phds & Post-Docs are often treated like slave labour, with no future certainty
A slave's future is absolutely assured, but the future of an independent thinker (isn't that what a PhD is all about?) is whatever he makes of it.