fun science site

[Friar]

Gawd, I love the internet!

http://skepdic.com/contents.html#A

[flamingyouth]

1. Veddy interesting

Thanks! :hi:

[Maple]

2. Cute, but not exactly

a science site.

About as useful as an astrological site actually

[Friar]

3. How so?

It debunks all that crap. I've only just started mining the depths of these articles but so far I've found it rational and revealing.

[Maple]

4. There isn't any science involved

Science is a search for knowledge.

No attempt is made at that here.

Any fool can scoff.

[Friar]

5. maybe you should read some more

essays posted there. It is all science for me so far.

http://www.randi.org/

[Maple]

8. No, it just bolsters your

beliefs. So you buy into it.

[Friar]

11. I try not to have "beliefs"

I think the facts can speak for themselves. And let's not parse "belief". Those symantical arguments are not very useful.

[Friar]

6. science is not the search for knowledge

it is a TOOL with which knowledge is sought. It is a method only.
Please forgive my contentious attitude. This is a subject I hold dear.

[Maple]

7. Yes,it's a tool

and a tool in the hands of an ape...is a tool misused.

Which is what this site is.

[Friar]

9. can you expound on that?

Are you saying they are dismissing these erroneous beliefs and belief systems out of hand? How exactly are they misusing science here? Do you believe in "auras", "psychic surgery", Kinesthesiology", "bending spoons", or whatever? Please say not.

[VOX]

10. This is cool!

Thanks for posting!

:toast:

[Brucey]

12. This site is absolutely cool... and correct.

This is not astrology... it is the opposite of astrology. Excellent summaries of many scientific and philosophical issues and terms.