How reliable is science? (Assumption 2/7) (The limitations of science)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, April 20, 2012, 00:22 (4599 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> > That said, it IS the idea of daughter products that forces a dating scientist to go through all the trouble I just mentioned in order to come up with a reliable date estimate. [And in scientific circles they ALL know they're dealing with estimates.] But most importantly, in the scientific literature, they *always* give what the +/- date range is, because the first check another scientist is going to do, is "how much error was in that measurement?"
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> But they don't generally post it in the layman's literature, do they?-No, but MOST scientists don't give "two shits" about the layman. -I don't have a problem with this. Scientific fields to me are for the elite only: if you're not willing to learn, you don't deserve to know.

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