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Re: "we never get a worthy explanation"


It's actually not that you never get an explanation - it's that you never accept an explanation.

Why should every explanation necessarily be accepted without question?

Personally I haven't seen that you've ever offered any actual explanation. I don't consider throwing out buzzwords and then telling people to do their homework when they follow up with questions any sort of explanation.

Clark and Curl have been making a big deal of Daniel Drasin's Zen and the Art of Debunkery. Here are two points from that essay that seem particularly germane to you and a few others:

• Downplay the fact that free inquiry and legitimate disagreement are a normal part of science.

• Use "smoke and mirrors," i.e., obfuscation and illusion. Never forget that a slippery mixture of fact, opinion, innuendo, out-of-context information and outright lies will fool most of the people most of the time.

It cuts both ways. The points made by Drasin aren't limited to debunkery.

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