(December 5, 2015 at 10:30 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(December 5, 2015 at 8:14 am)bennyboy Wrote: We would apply this by not accepting witness statements as evidence in any context where being able to establish the veracity of evidence is important to us.
So we have to see it for ourselves? And then we have to trust that our observations are accurate... correct?
Eyewitness testimony is unreliable, including our own, as shown time and time again, but it can help lead to evidence that is reliable. That is why science has peer review and does not count on testimony, but rather replicable information.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
