remember have said several times in forums, in conversations and monologues that explain, why those people who likes to insult both to the science for the traditional, natural, ancient or alternative is so limited when apply its criteria to very limited areas? Ever commented on more than one occasion I was conalguien cunaod defending the validity of the words of a psychic, soothsayer or astrologer if you like, should be charged in court, to have those people as witnesses against him and that their methods would serve to convict, comodicen in the movies, beyond reasonable doubt. Now I present an interesting and divertidísio article recounts humorous concpeto the absurdity of both weight and worth to some. Proponents of "alternative medicine" or "inmedicina" and especially the champions of anti-science, the antiinteligencia, the enemies of the experimental method and defenders of the "intuition" as an alternative to make me certain knowledge testable think they are also advocates of "alternative justice" or "injustice" based on things that they would seem the most valuable of human experience: the occurrences, the ancient traditions and wild, carefully cultivated ignorance, the " intuition "and" inner feeling. "
Today, in times where we find it easy to order a "DNA test" or require proof that a bullet came from a gun, when freedom of many people depends on an analysis of the components of a tissue or the time of death as determined by forensic entomology, when you can exonerate the innocent with a cotton swab gently past his oral mucosa or through other evidence, all based in science maligned, it may be appropriate to make a small Gedankenexperiment , ie, a "thought experiment" we can not do in reality but that develop as conjecture can give us a clear dimension of certain things, in this case of the top brass of "inciencia" [...]
Full article in The Return of charlatans, alternative justice.
by Mauricio-José Schwarz
28/09/2008
