N.Wells
Posts: 1836 Joined: Oct. 2005
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Quote (GaryGaulin @ May 14 2016,19:57) | Quote (N.Wells @ May 14 2016,18:34) | Quote | [From Gary at Sandwalk]One thing for sure is all the hype about scientists rushing to help investigate new insights was a pile of bullshit. The only time that happens is when it feeds biased vested interests. It's no wonder why soon after he arrived for a proper education young Galileo's professors tried to get him kicked out the university. |
........ Whatever gave you the impression that scientists are supposed to "rush to help investigate new insights"? That's you misunderstanding science again. Science is and always has been highly competitive as well as collaborative......... |
Oh it's just another one of those silly myths I picked up from schoolteachers who likewise had too much "trust" in the way the academic system works, in regard to new ideas. |
I'm not sure how Beavis and Butt-head provide a "demonstration" of anything, but even if they did, it's unclear how that clip applies to you and your situation. Scientists have an obligation to be honest and combat error and misrepresentation, rather than to present nonsense or be polite to cranks and aid their claptrap. Compared to that teacher, a more accurate analogy to your performance in the world of science can be found in the experiences of Father John Damian de Falcuis (the original [non]flying Scotsman), Wan Hu, and Franz Reichelt, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v....TSzueno. An ethical scientist at the time would have counseled them to stop what they were doing and to please go and do something more productive and healthy, and you've received exactly that advice.
(In researching Wan Hu, I also learned about Henry Smolinski - I always wondered what happened to the Flying Pinto, and sadly, now I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v....5EEy1k)
Anyway, Hypothesis A: You understood your teachers correctly, and they are correct. Hypothesis B: You understood your teachers correctly, but they are wrong. Hypothesis C: You (once again) misunderstood your teachers, and you remain wrong.
Unfortunately, we are unlikely to be able to verify independently what your teachers said. However: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~zcapf7....ety.pdf
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers....entists
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded......ies.pdf
http://lutece.fnal.gov/Talks......cs.html
Scientists will work on ideas that seem interesting and worthwhile (in fact, it's basically impossible to dissuade them from doing so), but they have neither obligation nor interest in paying any attention to ideas that are pitifully wrong (and poorly presented to boot).
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