[meteorite-list] Wickramasinghe Canned, Claims Ageism

[Meteorites USA]

I agree with regard to how science is done. It's not up to the majority 
in science . It's up to the evidence. Science is NOT a democracy nor a 
dictatorship. You don't vote what truth is, any more than you tell 
someone what it is. The minority view typically becomes the majority, 
and generally accepted over time when evidence is proved. Those with 
ulterior motives, false pride, huge egos, or are afraid of changing the 
status quo are as bad as corrupt politicians. When politics enters 
science the science suffers. The whole idea behind science is not to 
prove yourself right, but to find evidence that proves a hypothesis, 
regardless of who that hypothesis disagrees with. Peoples' egos are 
unimportant in the pure scientific process because emotion has no place 
in pure science.

Regards,
Eric



On 3/20/2011 12:05 PM, Spaceguard wrote:
> On 20/03/2011 17:58, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
>>
>> Looks like Cardiff has had enough of the screwey panspermia 
>> balderdash dished out by this guy.
>>
>> Summum Luna,
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
>> -----------------------------
>>
> "Screwy" perhaps, but no one has yet to refute his hypothesis in a 
> credible way.  While I think that he might be a bit extreme on some 
> subjects no one can deny that his work has been rigorously 
> scrutinised, and, so far, stands up to that scrutiny.
>
> Apart from that, the Astrobiology Centre has conducted a lot of world 
> class research, and has been published in many peer-reviewed 
> publications.  It has also sent the occasional ripple through the 
> establishment - and that is how science is done.
>
> Jay Tate
> The Spaceguard Centre
> http://www.spaceguarduk.com
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