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RE: Sophists? Inquisitors?

Hey, you're missing what's important! Cables, of course, since they affect audio, rather than unimportant stuff like the fate of the earth.

I guess what I'd say about ESP, cold fusion, and warming is that there's a huge difference between what scientists think about these things and what the general public thinks about these things, and sometimes, between what scientists think about these things and what the general public thinks scientists think about these things. Scientists have seen no evidence for ESP, despite any number of controlled experiments, and my uncanny ability to clean out casinos -- oops, shouldn't have mentioned that. Nor is there any real evidence for cold fusion, which was debunked rapidly after its announcement. And despite an industry sponsored campaign of disinformation, there are few if any credentialed limate scientists who don't accept anthropogenic global warming at this point, some hundred years after the theory was proposed by Arrhenius. After years of debate and research, the experimental evidence is just too overwhelming, not to mention that nobody has been able to come up with a consistent computer model that *doesn't* predict global warming. The actual scientific debate is on the magnitude of the effects.

For some reason, the popular press doesn't do a very good job of representing the beliefs of the scientific community. The press regularly touts unreproduced experiments like cold fusion, but scientists learn early on to be more cautious. Or results that are statistically insignificant (certain ABX tests, anyone?), or that confuse cause and effect. Or, in the interest of journalistic fairness, they quote quacks and shills, giving the public the impression that something like the existence of AGW is scientifically controversial when it no longer is.

But I do wish someone would do some real experiments on those esoteric cables! Because then I'd know whether my long-standing policy of not bothering with them was foolish or not.

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