W.D.Clinger
Philosopher
Perhaps you are confusing me with someone else. I have not accused you of being a fraud. I was trying to figure out what kind of "research scientist" you might be. The reason I was curious is that the gaps in your knowledge and the nature of your arguments are incompatible with the knowledge and training of the research scientists I happen to know. In this particular example, I was hoping that the other members of this subforum could explain how a "research scientist" could know so little about the temperatures that can be reached in a hydrocarbon fire.Again, this thing you have about me being a fraud isn't going to work out with you. Bunsen burners are used in high school, so think of what you're actually claiming, that I haven't even achieved high school science level of ability and knowledge.What kind of "research scientist" has never used a Bunsen burner?
You can continue to think I'm a fraud if it makes you feel better.
Subsequent to my question, other members of this subforum have suggested you might work in the biological or medical sciences. As evidence, several people have pointed out that your ignorance and arguments resemble those of a particular person who is believed to have earned a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
That sounds plausible to me. I don't know anything about the biological or medical sciences, and I am willing to believe that some of the research scientists who have been trained in those areas know as little about the physical sciences as you do.
(As an aside, addressing something alienentity wrote earlier: I myself am a graduate of the University of Texas. I'd like to point out that the University of Texas System has many branches and campuses, and that the university campus at Austin is the only one whose name is commonly abbreviated to "University of Texas" or "U Texas" or "UT". The name of the UT Medical School at Houston should not be abbreviated to "UT".)

