scary things at CRTC

[Thomas Milne]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 2009-04-08, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:10:16AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>>> To me, I see anyone who dismisses the beliefs, or lack thereof, of
>>> others with simple adjectives like "insane" as being equal foolish and
>>> close-minded.
>>
>> Well perhaps.
>
> Personally, I think books are a quick excuse for people too lazy to
> figure out how the world works for themselves.  Much easier to read
> and go by faith rather than to actually try to figure things out one's
> self.
>
> I also think science is being used as a means to control people who
> are willing to put their trust in faith in scientists.  I prefer
> people to think for themselves, but popular science seems to generally
> discourage that, although I am sure there are some exceptions.  I
> don't see many cases of this; people seem way more inclined to just
> trust in whatever they heard some scientist said than to do any
> verification themselves.
>
> Anyone without an irony-meter should probably ignore this...

You flatter yourself. Just because you replaced a bunch of words with
their opposite doesn't make it 'irony'. Your attempt at cleverness
assumes that 'science' and 'religion' are equal in terms of faith,
they are certainly not.
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