K12 (World Wide Whitewash)

An example of what K12s are missing by not having Google Groups /
(Google/NOVA) version of Usenet/newsgroups within their grasp.

On Jan 31, 10:47 am, jughead wrote:
Addendum:

Carson wrote..

The pseudoscientist, on the other hand, begins with what they believe
is an absolute fact. Rather than trying to confirm, they instead
reinterpret existing information to fit their fact. This often leads
to more and more layers of additional assumed facts to prop up the
initial presumed idea, unable or refusing to acknowledge that perhaps
the initial idea is wrong.
Do you see the difference here?

: Let's take an example of just such a scenario. Start out with the
pre-
: held axiom: "There is no spatial medium. Space is a universally-
: isotropic 'void', invariant from the instant of emergence from the
Big
: Bang." What is this axiom going to require in terms of belief?
:
: Well, it will require 'messenger particles', "photons" lifted
entirely
: out of original context as in the PE effect, and they have to
somehow
: 'know' to fly at exactly c at all times, and they have to be
available
: in unlimited quantities on demand to carry the total EM output of a
: quasar for example. Concerning gravity, gravity can only be
explained
: by citing *descriptions of its effects*, or yet-to-be-discovered
: 'gravitons', or as a 'fictitious force'. Yet there is no explanation
: of how *descriptions of effects* or imaginary 'exchange particles'
or
: fictitious forces actually power the gravity which powers
supernovae,
: hypernovae and quasars. The excessive lensing of far-distant
galaxies
: calls for invention of "dark matter" to explain the excessive
lensing
: (as well as the non-Keplerian rotation of spiral galaxies). The
: perceived "ever-accelerating expansion" of the universe requires
: invention of "dark energy" to drive the perceived expansion. In
short,
: the 'No medium' belief requires "adding epicycles", kludge upon
kludge
: using perfectly good Math, to keep the belief propped up. As such,
the
: 'No medium' belief is no different in its functional dynamic than
: geocentrism. Pseudoscience at its best.

Very nicely put. Too bad that's not what our K12s and college
students are being systematically brainwashed with.

~ BG