My contribution to the Woo Wars: Tim Minchin's Storm

[baldguy]

[Quixote1818]

1. K and R

I posted this in a thread but didn't give it it's own thread. Glad someone did.


My two favorite parts:

"Alternative Medicine", I continue
"Has either not been proved to work,
Or been proved not to work.
Do you know what they call "alternative medicine"
That's been proved to work?
Medicine."


And

You're so sure of your position
But you're just closed-minded
I think you'll find
Your faith in science and tests
Is just as blind
As the faith of any fundamentalist"

"Hmm that's a good point, let me think for a bit
Oh wait, my mistake, that's absolute bullshit.
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

[longship]

2. Tim Minchin is pretty damned good.

Well worth a click.
R&K

[Codeine]

3. That man is a fucking genius.

Makes me sick when people are that more clever than I will ever be.

[spooky3]

4. I love my hairstylist, but she is Storm.

I always must bite my tongue. She's an intelligent and caring person but is so enamored of this stuff that it's hopeless.

[Demo_Chris]

5. Brilliant. nt

[progressoid]

6. Always a pleasure to listen to Tim.

[whatchamacallit]

7. If "science adjusts it's views"

that means the current state of science is sometimes wrong. Therefore, screaming "SCIENCE!!!" to shut people up, as if it's all been answered and settled, makes one a total fucking twit.

[baldguy]

8. Of course some of science is wrong.

To insist that any product of human endeavor is perfect is self-indulgent, self-delusional, arrogant and absurd. What's important is that science has a mechanism to correct these errors, where anti-scientific methods - faith, religion, woo, what have you - don't have such mechanisms. Science has a process to eliminate errors. Woo accumulates them.