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willbeurdaddy -> RE: Scary Common Ground (6/23/2011 6:26:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
Read Feynmann's book What Do You care What Other People Think? He describes the exact same bullshit that led up to the Challenger disaster - thoughtful, conservative safety measures continually ignored/weakened.
This board would do well to read almost anything by Feynmann, even if most of the physics is over their heads. Its a shame he isnt around for the AGW debate. He anticipated it quite well in 1974:
"Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be
given, if you know them. You must do the best you can--if you know
anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong--to explain it. If you
make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then
you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well
as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem.
When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate
theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that
those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea
for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else
come out right, in addition."
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