On 26/06/2006, at 11:57 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Also, I've had much more luck
discussing science with you than I have discussing it with the Fool.
Maybe because I've got formal science training...
I've seen that correlation before. Maybe we're on to something and
could
publish a paper on the possibility of causation between formal science
training and understanding science. Since I'm a nice guy, I'll let
you be
first author. :-)
More interesting, the link between lack of formal science training
(or even a decent schooling in science) and tendency to believe crank
stuff (homeopathy and other altie "medicine", free energy, ufos,
occult, etc).
It seems trivial that people who study science tend to get science.
Charlie
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