[TML] New power source?

[Knapp]

On Feb 4, 2008 10:11 PM, Jerry W Barrington <jursamaj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2/4/08 9:09 AM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Burning his work? Does that sound like level headed law and science to
> > you? How many ufo researchers have had their written works burned? How
> > many doctors use methods that are not backed by scientific
> > reseach(most)?
>
> Well, not really interested in a big debate about pseudoscience, but
> remember that the law has *never* adhered to level-headed, scientific
> principles.  It it was the legal system that burned his stuff, not a
> rampaging horde of scientists.  :)
>
> As or UFO researchers, I've never actually heard of them getting their books
> burned.  But anybody who tells you they know what UFOs are is missing the U
> in UFO...

I have no interest in debating pseudoscience (these people piss me
off, along with marketers, but I do have a soft spot of well
intentioned bad science.), more about limits being place on real
science because the subject is "known" not to be valid. It is a funny
thing about science that you can only research and be published in per
reviewed magazines when you are studying accepted subjects. If you do
totally valid research on a subject like UFO's or whatever you will
have a hard time with it from mainline people. One of the reasons some
people write SF is to explore subjects that they would be limited with
in their professional world. I wish I could come up with a story or
author off the top of my head but I can't. One of the great things
about SF is the ability to explore things like the disk world we
explored here a bit ago.

Douglas E Knapp