RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
November 9, 2015 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2015 at 4:20 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(November 9, 2015 at 2:44 pm)robvalue Wrote: Can you imagine what "scientific knowledge" would look like if a group of people claiming something happened was considered enough evidence on its own?
After 5 minutes?
There has to be ways to separate the truth from the bullshit, and that is the scientific method. It's the only method that has consistently and reliably proven to work. If something just happens to be true but has insufficient evidence, that's just too bad. It's far preferable to accepting absolutely everything, so that almost all "knowledge" is likely to be wrong.
If something never occurs again and has no measurable impact ever, then it can be safely ignored as irrelevant even if it did happen in the past.
If someone wants to believe something based on extremely weak evidence, that's up to them. Unless it's causing harm, it's none of my business.
I do plan on starting another post to discuss the value of witness testimony and observance. Here I only wished to discuss the principle of EC-EE, and it's merit. Interestingly enough most of the arguments pro...where anecdotal.
