N.Wells
Posts: 1836
Joined: Oct. 2005
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Gary epitomizes the tragedy of cargo-cult science. Like a cargo cultist wearing coconut-shell headphones and mumbling nonsensical landing directions into a shell of a radio, Gary keeps making what he thinks are all the right sounds: "theory", "prediction"; "model", "fractal", "self-similarity", "emergence", etc. ad nauseum, but he's speaking noises whose meanings he does not know, so he's completely unaware of all the ludicrous contradictions and inconsistencies he comes up with. Like the cargo-cultist's sham airport control, Gary thinks he has the form of science down pat, without realizing that he has none of the details that allows science to work. Without evidence his "conclusions" are merely assertions; without operational definitions he has meaningless invocations; without ground-truthing, his model is divorced from reality. So he just can't comprehend why acclaim won't land on his island. Why won't the world accept the sincerity of his beliefs? Maybe if he throws in just one more buzzword or embellishes just a little more....
"Throwing political slogans": Um, Gary, YOU are the buffoon who claims as his premise a hollow political slogan coined by the Discovery Institute.
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