Re:Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk
by tialaramex on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:43PM
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It's like the second coming of Jesus. When a group says it'll definitely happen next week, they get breathless reporting. Then it doesn't happen - do they realise they know nothing? Nope, they're now convinced it'll be in two weeks time, rinse and repeat.
Religious movements have been known to spend a whole lifetime saying Jesus is definitely coming next week, only to then go er, actually maybe the week after. You won't find any where the group of believers went "We were wrong". That's hard for individual people and essentially impossible for groups.
Even actual scientists are not always great at this. Michelson-Morley (the experiment to look for the aether against which all things have absolute position) is the best example I can think of scientists going "OK, we were wrong" (there is no absolute position, see Einstein) but there are lots where all you see is incremental shifts to be gradually less wrong, one scientist at a time, nobody outright saying (metaphorically) that Jesus isn't coming.
Religious movements have been known to spend a whole lifetime saying Jesus is definitely coming next week, only to then go er, actually maybe the week after. You won't find any where the group of believers went "We were wrong". That's hard for individual people and essentially impossible for groups.
Even actual scientists are not always great at this. Michelson-Morley (the experiment to look for the aether against which all things have absolute position) is the best example I can think of scientists going "OK, we were wrong" (there is no absolute position, see Einstein) but there are lots where all you see is incremental shifts to be gradually less wrong, one scientist at a time, nobody outright saying (metaphorically) that Jesus isn't coming.