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Originally Posted by peacegirl
Maybe scientists are so self-righteous that the thought that someone outside of their field could come up with something new is too difficult to accept. Maybe he should have addressed this differently, but the good news is that the truth always wins, one way or another. I have confidence in this.
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Scientists are generally not 'self-righteous', but are evidence driven to their conclusions. They ask a question, then do an experiment, when several experiments and tests all point to the same conclusion, the response is 'this must be true'. If you have another test or experiment that gives a different result, propose it and some scientist will try it, but you must have some justification for believing it may be true. That Lessans wrote it in a book with a lot of other wild claims is not justification enough.