Michael Shermer - Why People Believe Weird Things - Part 2/11

[SpellboundSolution]

Step 1: collect underpants

Step 2: ?

Step 3: profit

I think the underpants gnomes need to be a bit more explicit in step 2.

[dragnet53]

Hey Shermer why is science always being rewritten? Even Dr. Michio Kaku believes in weird things and he is smarter than you.

[Apostasy4Ever]

@dragnet53

It is always being rewritten because it is constantly under the scrutiny of skeptics such as yourself so it is always being reevaluated. From a philosophical standpoint, the whole of truth will never be known. For example when two people are fighting and you speak to each person individually you will get each persons side of the story and they will likely be a little different. The truth is somewhere in between. Science tests to its greatest ability given the technology of the times.

[dragnet53]

@Apostasy4Ever

No the real reason why it is always being rewritten is because new things are being invented that changes mainstream science. They say lasers or cloaking device is impossible to create and is dubbed science fiction. Now science fiction is becoming reality according to Dr. Michio Kaku.

[Apostasy4Ever]

@dragnet53

We're saying similar things in a different way. But I don't think the point of this talk is to compare the creativity or intelligence of Shermer to Kaku, nor is Kaku the only scientist that's making 'science fiction' a reality. We make synthetic life now after so much time of thinking we never would. The cool thing about technology is it affords us the ability to learn more about the world around us and it advances exponentially, so in turn our understanding of the world may also.

[dragnet53]

@Apostasy4Ever

Sadly though technology is making our ability to have common sense and socializing thrown out the window. social network websites don't count. I am talking about human to human contact. But I believe in weird things and I have intelligence and common sense. I just partially don't agree with Shermer on certain things.