SSM Plebiscite

[PaulP]

We have 806 members, there are probably 50 to 100 people on that list at least who would use something like trigonometry everyday, and I bet they would be able to read and understand a portion of many scientific papers.

They do not need to be anything special, they just have to keep and open mind.

That is the real difference between scientists and the dogmatic, one lives in a bubble bound by belief, while the other is free to explore everything with an open mind!

I imagine that scientific papers come in a range of complexities, and some may be intelligible, and others would not.

You try and pin me down with labels - dogmatic, New Age, Religious, defensive, all of which are wrong. And your last sentence is the height of arrogance and self delusion. You reckon I'm stuck in the dark ages. I'm not the one peddling laughable junk about the free spirit of scientists, which was ridiculous decades ago . If science was open minded, it would have no issue with people like Sheldrake and their ideas. Science is a conservative, powerful institution with enormous power and prestige. It is not and does not need to be open minded. It has the eyes and ears and wallets of governments and common folks alike, and pretty much does as it pleases. As any dominant paradigm would do I suppose.