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Science has no agenda. Science has what's factual and what is not factual.

You have an agenda. Your agenda is to attempt to make facts and opinions carry the same weight in a political debate.

Never gonna happen, cletus.



Who said anything about science in general?

You attempted to make an analogy between the deliberate destruction of raw data and the metric-Imperial mismatch that caused the failure of the Mars Orbiter mission somehow impugning all data on Mars.

Not equivalent. Not even close. If you don't get that you're either blinded by zealotry or simply lack the capacity to formulate or evaluate logic.


Fail, Cletus.

What it's actually like is doing the 10 to the x repeat of Newton seeing and Apple dropping an from a tree, the apple landing on the foot of a research assistant standing under the tree.

The scientist says, "Ooops, I should have told my research assistant to get out from under the tree."

While Cletus, Sarah Palin, and a few in denial friends go running off to Fox News and announce "I saw Jesus cancel gravity. It's a sign from God."


Adam, have you noticed that every time you try the self-righteous "Fail, Cletus", you lose a chunk of reputation? Perhaps if you tried to have a civil discussion without sounding like you're talking down to the rest of us, you might fare better.

Another tip: your final, ungrammatical paragraph is nothing but an ad hominem attack, and a snarky unsupported one at that. Cheap digs like that won't help you make allies, they just piss people off.


>Science has no agenda. Science has what's factual and what is not factual.

That's like say English language always has proper grammar and spelling. Or that politicians in a democracy always work for the good of the people.




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