Monday, June 28, 2010

Predictions from Those Who Think It's All a Conspiracy?

SEE HERE As a scientist my general methodology when people start shouting doom and gloom is to ask to see the data on which they base these claims. Now I don't for a minute doubt that people with money and influence are not out to run the world. Human nature after all hasn't changed a whit in thousands of years, only the technology has matured, not the people. In fact they've gone decidedly backward. So when doom and gloom is preached the next thing to do is to keep records. Then as things go forward and group A has predicted thus and such and later if thus and such happens you give group A credibility points. If it doesn't happen you give them chicken little points. After a while you develop a sense of who knows what they are talking about and who doesn't. Data is king!

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