(January 2, 2017 at 2:26 pm)AAA Wrote: You act as though all ideas are treated the same by scientific journals.
Why would they treat every idea the same? No one does that.
Quote:Like everything else, they put money first.
That's a pretty heavy accusation to make. Are you implying that they would suffer a loss of funds if they didn't reject legitimate science that came from certain people?
Quote:Do you ignore everything that isn't peer reviewed?
No. But peer review helps to keep scientists honest and is a way of cutting through bias and bad science in order to learn more. To avoid the system that is in place is to avoid having your work tested as thoroughly and honestly as it should be. That should make anyone suspicious.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould