Skeptics, and how they can be convinced

[Almo]

From http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/about-ken.html

Before the 1960s, American geologists largely rejected arguments for continental drift. As it happened, an interesting article by L. C. King advocating continental drift arrived in Ken's AAPG Bulletin while he was isolated in the Army. Ken's reaction was that King's arguments seemed convincing. At Princeton in 1956, the faculty was largely against continental drift. (Not quite solidly against. A. F. Buddington, the beloved Dr. Budd, gave a lecture saying something was needed to explain the Permian glacial striations in South Africa. The undergraduates, mimicking McCarthy-era usage, announced that Buddington was "soft on continental drift.") In 1960, Harry Hess launched the scientific revolution by writing about sea-floor spreading. Suddenly, Princeton largely lined up for continental drift.

THIS is how skeptics are convinced of things. EVIDENCE!!!!

 

[TobiasTheViking]

From http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/about-ken.html



THIS is how skeptics are convinced of things. EVIDENCE!!!!

Do you have anything but anacdotal evidence to back up that statement???

 

[roger]

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

 

[T'ai Chi]

THIS is how skeptics are convinced of things. EVIDENCE!!!!

In the example you gave, the evidence was always there.

 

[Silly Green Monkey]

The evidence IS always there. It just needs to be discovered and collected.

 

[Piggy]

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

I am so snagging that for an email siggie!

 

[Jeff Corey]

You would have to cite Homer on that one.

 

[Piggy]

You would have to cite Homer on that one.

Then I shall.

 

[Almo]

In the example you gave, the evidence was always there.

... I don't even know where to begin with this. I'm a bit drunk. Just did the Ubisoft 20th anniversary party in Montreal, and BOY do those guys know how to throw a party.

Anyway.

I'll start with Ian Mayor, a brilliant writer/game designer I know in the UK. One time, I said to him, "Buffy is a useless show. The writing is horrible." He said, "That statement is so wrong on so many levels, that I don't even know where to begin describing its wrongness. It's like an impenetrable sphere of wrongness."

I will just say that T'ai Chi's statement above can be treated as Ian's Impenetrable Sphere of Wrongness.

 

[Gr8wight]

... I don't even know where to begin with this. I'm a bit drunk. Just did the Ubisoft 20th anniversary party in Montreal, and BOY do those guys know how to throw a party.

Anyway.

I'll start with Ian Mayor, a brilliant writer/game designer I know in the UK. One time, I said to him, "Buffy is a useless show. The writing is horrible." He said, "That statement is so wrong on so many levels, that I don't even know where to begin describing its wrongness. It's like an impenetrable sphere of wrongness."

I will just say that T'ai Chi's statement above can be treated as Ian's Impenetrable Sphere of Wrongness.

Or, you could use the newest Tommy Lee-ism: "That was sauteed in wrong sauce."