Quote:Lammers said Gade "has demonstrated that she doesn't understand what science is and how it operates, and that is very, very embarrassing for someone that is a retired professor from this institution. It's an embarrassment to all of us."
timber picked that out to quote and it is nothing but an assertion on which a conclusion is based.
Presumably Ms Gade was once a scientist by the definitions applied on here and has ceased to be because she's at odds with Mr Lammers. Does her demotion affect the qualifications of the students who studied physics during her professorship at Oshkosh and what does it say about those who appointed her to her responsible position?
Is Mr Lammers a scientist? On the evidence of the quote that is surely doubtful although it is a Sara Kemps on whom we rely. Is Sara qualified for her responsible position of providing the public with guidance on these difficult matters.
If Eorl's 10 million figure is anything to go by then one could hardly expect average IQs in these fields to be much above 110 given that other occupations surely account for a fair proportion of those who's IQs are in that range it is reasonable to expect those of scientists to be.
The person in the Sunday Times who recently said that the American education system is designed exclusively to help Americans of certain social classes to "feel better about themselves" ( a comfort) is obviously not as wide of the mark as one might have thought.
You do look to have something of a muddle on your hands I must say. Do you import scientists?
I think your basic problem is the credibility you attach to the assertion. Such an intellectual flaw seems to be institutionalised at the core of the national psyche. A very recent example being-
Quote:Spurious, what you know of history, and of common people, wouln't fill a gnat's @sshole . . .
which must be as comforting as a baby's dummy dipped in syrup is to the infant and as easily administered.
As this assertion problem must be obvious to those in charge of the educational system (which I'll admit might be wishful thinking) one is left wondering why nothing is being done about it. You could easily end up with 300 million separate belief systems at this rate. An authentic Tower of Babel right there in your face.
You seem from here to be in a muddle and one can understand your internationally renowed poet saying-
"It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves."
On some evidence I've seen you certainly can't feed yourselves properly.
And why would timber think that the quote given is "worth noting"? That's an assertion as well. The quote isn't worth a gob of spit actually. It's just an assertion reinforcing the assertions of those who quote it approvingly and, as such, proper gobshite.
Richard Branson made a speech yesterday which was an excellent example of "extended assertion". He failed to answer any of the questions the BBC reporter asked him about it for the very simple reason that he couldn't. The $3 billion ( maybe £s) speaks for itself and is inevitably an accountant's assertion contrived for the purpose of a challenge to the elected Government. On the face of it he, and his shareholders, are investing in a process to wipe out their own businesses and that seems most unlikely. But the glad handing looked good. A bunch of private citizens I think they were.
And now I hear that California is going to sue the motor industry for providing it with the means to generate the wealth to organise the case.
"No reason to get excited", the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who think that life is but a joke,
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."