imported_Aelius
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Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: Aelius
I look at experience as the ultimate authority and do not trust books nor scientific studies. Perhaps in this case you might be 100% correct but studies can be outright wrong or biased themselves. Ever think that someone smart enough didn't think to perhaps only speak to those experts thom all have a certain biase as opposed to asking both ends of the spectrum and everything in between? It has been done before.
Read just about any material written about the facts of Jews from WWII countesy of Nazi Germany. They are a prime example of how expert facts can be full of dog piss.
Another example is stats. God I love stats. (sarcasm) How one can pretty much bend stats to say what they want it to say. It sounds impossible but really it's quite simple. It's called "spin". You can spin stats to say what you want based on your agenda. Just about any stat would do depending on what you want to say.
Hence I think experience is the ultimate authority.
I hope this explains why I think what I think.
You're definitely right to be sceptical, especially having not seen the study.
At the very least, scientific studies are supposed to be peer reviewed and the results must be independently reproducible, but you are 100% correct that even a scientist can't ever escape his own biases, even if he is trying to.
I think this is going to be a spot where we won't see eye to eye, but given your reasoning, I certainly can't fault you for it, and I apologize for doing so before.
100% agree.
Apology humbly accepted.