scary things at CRTC

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:43:55AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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.

Well some books are fiction.  Some books are just plain wrong.
Just because it is in a book doesn't mean it is right.  Reading books
and then trying to check things yourself can be quite useful.

> 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.

But science encourages you to go verify it for yourself.

> Anyone without an irony-meter should probably ignore this...

Yeah probably.

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Len Sorensen
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