(September 23, 2016 at 9:08 am)mcolafson Wrote: O.k.
let's say it is year 1825 anno domini, your name is Robert Brown and you are watching a phenomenon that they will later call Brownian motion. You cannot determine the mechanisms that cause this motion. Does it mean that the particles are not moving? Maybe you had too much drink and you are hallucinating?
The placebo effect is well known and powerful and the tests to discount it are understood by science.
Brownian motion was a new thing that was not understood.
What you are doing here is showing the same as theists do for gods. they believe because they want to and try to justify in the face of the facts.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
