Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
Well, I have a mechanical engineering degree, which means I took all the same physics, chemistry, mathematics, (calc 1,2,3, diff eq, prob & statistics) as "scientists" and have studied the scientific method. Does that make me a scientist? I have no freaking idea.
If you have to ask........
Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
But do I understand what some of these people are trying to pass on as science? Hell yes I do. Look man, I used to work on pollution controls in the power generation industry!
That does not a climatologist make. That would be much closer to someone that does catalytic converter replacements at Pep Boys.
Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
In the engineering industry (whose underpinnings are in hard science) we (myself included) worked with mathematical models on a daily basis.
The same could be said for a night auditor at a Day's Inn.
Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
What is the world coming to where people put up with this kind of reasoning? Wow.
Tell me about it!
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On a slightly separate note;
As for you Bush supporters that pay lip service to science. Thanks to Obama for restoring integrity to national science policy by not putting the cart before the horse as Bushy boy did.
Bush (nodding head and shrugging shoulders); "Make research results fit my agenda, heh heh"
Obama; "Let's determine agenda based on the research."
Which would you choose?
(wrx, Winged Wheeler, somehow I "believe" you'd choose the former)