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Originally Posted by Max
Hmmmm... not really...
Think e.g. at Dr. Hung... she has red hairs... but we'll not burn her!  |
Hmmmm.... Red hairs?
Are you sure the Aurificus proposition that using common sense as a determining factor in scientific advancement is associated with burning witches with red hairs?
It seems to me that by removing common sense from the determining factors of the scientific advancement process can lead to a lot of fake technology that doesn't work. For example, If we remove common sense from the determining factors, we might end up with these scientific advancements:
1. The pope was recently shown to not be the pope at all. He is really a small flock of ducks hiding inside the pope garments, and pretending to be the pope. These clever ducks learned to make sounds the same as a human voice in several languages, so as to give the illusion of a real person. Researchers know it is obvious that someone expert in the makeup business must have made a very realistic mask for these ducks to appear as the pope's face. All this is proved by science by using a duck detector pendulum, which was corroborated from 6 different geological locations, that effectively triangulate the ducks to the location of the pope. Do not let common sense dissuade you from this scientific advance.
2. The earth was proven to be flat once and for all. Yes, scientists recalled all the satellite images and videos to re-examine them. Much to their surprise, they discovered the earth is really flat, but is in a round disk shape that gives the illusion of spherical. After carefully viewing satellite images from all angles, scientists discovered there is an optical illusion that is created by the time-space continuum -- which makes it appear that there is more to the earth on the other side of a hypothetical sphere. New discoveries show that when you reach the edge of the earth, the optical illusion comes into play to make more land appear beyond the edge, similar to a GPS map which adds more land as you move to the edge of the screen. As you continue scrolling further past the edge of the earth, the optical illusion "recycles" back to the opposite edge... similar to how a computer screen can wrap back to the starting point, and you end up where you started. This illusion is pervasive from all angles of satellite view and movement. Now common sense would dictate that if all this is true, then show us some photos of the bottom side of the earth disk to prove it. However, this illusion does not permit us to see the bottom of the earth because of the persistence of the phenomenon. And besides, common sense is not allowed as a determining factor when new science is advanced.
3. Buried coins send out very fast pulses of electrical charge that can be sensed above the surface of the ground using an IR LED. This is proven by the science which dictates that chemical action will create a Schottky barrier around the coin, and a thermal gradient will cause a charge to migrate to one side of the coin, then capacitor action will allow the charge to build up to such a degree that it can no longer be contained within the barrier, and will discharge into the soil. From the soil, the pulsed discharges will propagate to the surface and interact with an IR beam to cause it to send a perturbation to the train of power pulses that cause it to light. If common sense suggests that any of the events in this chain reaction are highly unlikely, forget it. This discovery represents a scientific advancement where common sense cannot interfere with the determining factors.
So Max, are you sure that using common sense is associated with burning witches with
"Red hairs"?
Could it be more likely that the new technique of "not using common sense as a determining factor when advancing science" is more like accepting
"Red herrings" to be fact?
Red Herring:
A type of logical fallacy in which one purports to prove one's point by means of irrelevant arguments (see Ignorati elenchi).
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/red+herring/en-en/
(No need to burn red herrings... the have already been smoked enough).
Best wishes,
J_P