First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)

[JuliaL]

My position has been that metaphysics is bullshit.  

My apologies for mischaracterizing your position(s).
I confuse easily.
But aren't you stating a positional claim of the underlying ultimate character of metaphysics?  That it is bullshit?
Isn't that a metaphysical stand?
Ah, well....

And further, that it does not matter what philosophers say about the philosophy of science.  That is, it does not matter as long as scientists are smart enough to ignore it, which they generally are.

I expect there is a multi dimensional spectrum of attitudes, from indifference to complete acceptance to full denial which establish some equilibrium position for the population of practitioners.  Given the amount of work involved in creating and maintaining standing in any scientific discipline, I'd expect the general consensus of scientists regarding the philosophy of science to be, "Eh, what?"  Though when pressed and if the question is specifically put, they'd probably agree with you.

I did not say that my posts had no value.  I stated that they had no scientific value.  None of the posts of mine that have value in this thread are of any scientific value.

Sure they do.  Science is the study of reality.  As your posts are part of the material world, they are included in that study and have scientific value.  At this moment, your posts, with billions of others, are being data-mined by graduate students around the world studying the uses to which the bandwith surplus of the internet can and should be put.  So to say they have 'no' scientific value is excessively modest.  May I suggest an alternative, 'of infinitessimal scientific value.'  

Some of my posts were mere jokes,

As are mine.  And I hope you find them amusing rather than insulting.