[Rockhounds] Fwd: Scientific Ineptitude

[Paul van den Bergen]

I think you are confused.

If you have ever read any scientific publications, the most excitement you
would get from the title would be the occasional bad pun.

If you are thinking of click bait headlines, especially ones that
misrepresent the research, you are thinking journalists. And they do it
because that's what works to sell you advertising.

So is it the scientist fault? The journo? The advertising industry? Society
for being so 1 dimensionally distractable and scientifically illiterate?

Or do you think it's politicians and lobbyists who push a vested interest
point of view, attempt to destroy trust in expertise and actual
authoritative sources because that's how you manipulate people en masse?

Either way.

This has very little to do with the subject matter of this list.

On Tue, 12 Jul. 2022, 10:46 Glen Miller, <miller3987 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a pretty broad rejection. Who ya gonna trust? QAnon, NewsMax?
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> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 4:48 PM Mike Flannigan <mflan at mflan.com> wrote:
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> > Sending again since I had e-mail problems all weekend.
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> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject:        Scientific Ineptitude
> > Date:   Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:55:51 -0500
> > From:   Mike Flannigan <mflan at mflan.com>
> > To:     rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
> > CC:     etchplain at att.net
> >
> >
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> > Here is some sarcasm:
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> > I'm amazed that "scientists" would make exaggerated, titillating,
> > fictional claims just to push a sound byte and obtain government
> > funding for their projects.
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> > Sarcasm off.
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> > I long ago lost faith in "scientists", partly over the
> > global warming debate.
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> >
> > Mike
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> > On 7/9/22 14:00, rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com wrote:
> > > The Giant, Prehistoric Squid That Ate Common Sense
> > > Brian Switek, Wired Magazine, Oct. 2011
> > >
> >
> https://www.wired.com/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense/
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