(July 12, 2016 at 1:03 pm)robvalue Wrote: They're not independent though, Alex. Independent scientists publish non-peer reviewed word salad about poorly defined concepts, including no actual science whatsoever.
Basically what Sir Patrick Moore used to call, generously, "Independent Thinkers".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'