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« on: December 16, 2017, 12:58:24 PM »
Sorry to disagree, but you are only spouting your own prejudices and beliefs much of which has been gleaned by trawling through the internet and recycling other people's ideas which fit your own particular vision of life. Look at this example of your narrow thinking:
Gone are the days when the common man with a few coin, some binoculars, a measuring tape and a pencil could confirm many a scientific theory for himself.
Science has become so compartmentalized, so esoteric, and so very far removed form laypeople, especially when it comes to astrophysics, and so all the more easy to manipulate by the powers that be.
Again you are are just talking the talk without walking the walk. There are a huge number of experiments that you or anybody else can do with just the tools you have described. Many will confirm the basis of the theories that scientists with access to more advanced equipment can investigate further. You could join those more advanced research projects if you gained just some of the basic knowledge and experience required to get involved. Unfortunately like so many others, it is easier to trawl the internet agreeing with others, rather than actually getting out there and trying some of the real world experiments for yourself. Those that get out there, investigate, study and learn are the real pioneers that question what we know and push the boundaries of knowledge. You on the other hand are quick to categorise those hard working folks as 'Sheople', when in fact it is you and others that don't or won't think for themselves that have become the 'Sheople'.
Here is another example of your lack of informed thinking:
Scientists have caught themselves and have been caught by others lying many times in the past.
Tip of the ice berg: Sugar and Tobacco companies paid scientists to withhold data that would damage their products marketability.
Now eventually these lies were uncovered, after decades and millions dead of cancer and diabetes, but if they lied in the past, what makes you so sure they're not lying to us today?
I can remember in the late 1950s and early 1960s when scientists started publishing papers on smoking and the risk of lung cancer and the fact that too much sugar dependency in our food was damaging to our health. There has never been any shortage of easily available and widely publicised evidence for both of these problems, but most of the general public who enjoyed smoking and sugary foods, decided to ignore the warnings and listen instead to their favourite tobacco and food companies who denied the health claims. Scientists are not to blame here, it is the greed of big manufacturers and the general sloth and disinterest of the majority of the public. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard ' My Grandfather smoked 60 cigarettes a day and died at 85, it never hurt him!' or 'You only live once, might as well enjoy it while you are here'. I assume you live in the US, the most self indulgent country in the world when it comes to eating, addicted to fast food and sweet drinks and with the highest level of obesity in the world. This is inspite of dire warnings over the last half century and easy access to all the available scientific research and warnings. Don't blame science, blame the greedy corporations and the greedy lazy public who only hear what they want to hear.
You can apply all the above to the conspiracy theories, it's easier to jump on the bandwagon of blaming things we don't understand on conspiracy and lies than it is to find out for yourself.
Roger