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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
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Lone Survivor
2024-11-08 21:17:00 UTC
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Anecdotally there exist people who drinks and slim.

Scientifically, science hates exception and consensus.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6557026/
Consensus in Science
Consensus has no value in a scientific argument; only experimental
evidence matters. As stated already by Galileo Galilei,5 “In questions
of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble
reasoning of a single individual.” Physician, producer, and writer
[T]he work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus.
Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary,
requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that
he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real
world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What are relevant are
reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great
precisely because they broke with the consensus.6

1. Consensus Rule: Consensus is a decision-making process that seeks to
achieve agreement among all participants. Unlike 100% Unanimous Rule,
consensus does not require that every participant agree on every detail
of the decision. Instead, it seeks to find common ground that all
participants can agree on, even if it means compromising on some points.
This approach can be effective in promoting cooperation and inclusivity,
but it can also be time-consuming and challenging to achieve in larger
groups.

For example,
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Scientific Consensus: Earth's Climate Is Warming
[Galileo knew about and had accepted Copernicus's heliocentric
(Sun-centered) theory. It was Galileo's observations of Venus that
proved the theory. Using his telescope, Galileo found that Venus went
through phases, just like our
Moon.](http://solar-center.stanford.edu/gal-challenge/gquiz6c.html)

[How did Galileo prove the Earth was not the center of the solar system?
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/gal-challenge/gquiz6c.html](http://solar-center.stanford.edu/gal-challenge/gquiz6c.html)

“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own
ignorance.”
― Thomas Sowell
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“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what
is best.” ― Thomas Sowell
Chris Schram
2024-11-08 22:06:43 UTC
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On 2024-11-08, Lone Survivor <***@gmail.com> wrote:

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Dear Bot: Kindly take your AI-generated spew elsewhere.
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BlueManedHawk
2024-11-08 22:17:03 UTC
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Post by Chris Schram
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Dear Bot: Kindly take your AI-generated spew elsewhere.
This kind of madness is not the kind of thing that an ML system could
create—it could only be the result of human ignorance.

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