Wow. Speechless. Some scientist you are. One scientist vs thousands that confirmed the NIST reports. Very impressive.
Remind me to never take your calculations seriously.
That is fine. It is a weak mind that trusts another human without trying vehemently to vindicate any argument with which one agrees, or disagrees. I have sophomorically believed everything "scientists" say without question - because of White Lab Coat syndrome. Once you are actually in Academia, or doing your own laboratory research, you should have the luxury of having a substantial voice on things in your field - whether right or wrong.
Real students of academia do not dismiss on emotion, or because one's sphere of believability has been breached.
As I tell everyone, work to prove me wrong (or anyone else
it helps both of us learn the truth. But, I will not respect people who dismiss because "1000s of other scientists say something else." I hope you remember that argument when you are [one of the] only people who fighting for something you believe in. As you said to remind you to never take me seriously, when that moment comes when you are the man alone defending what you believe in, just remember that you applied similar judgment on knowledge. So, we can most certainly agree to disagree; you haven't even told me whether or not you do your own laboratory research on stress, strain, physical forces, thermodynamics - anything. Are you a civil engineer? Do you do stochastic modeling? Have you modeled the event? Seriously, it is very unimpressive for someone to dismiss as a layperson, while at the same time this one has had no formal experience in either academia, or the laboratory.
Oh yea, and did you forget the prophets that were literally "1/1000" in what they believed. Remember what happened to the disciples that didn't
agree with the 1000s of pharisees and cultural norms? They got martyred. But, I am sure they were wrong since thousands of people did not agree with them then, and obviously were more respected by the
people than a lowly prophet of God. (No, I am not saying I am a prophet; I am using an analogy to show how erroneous it is to dismiss someone just because 1000s of "Chaldeans" disagree. It is flawed logic.)
Some folks, will choose conspiracy over reality every single time.
I love how people use conspiracy as if it is some sort of tool to immediately dismiss something. I suppose your forget in most of the West, conspiracy is an actual
crime, and people get charged with it very often. Conspiracy theories are just theories of possible cospiracy that has not be proven, or legally charged as an actual conspiracy in court - that is all. It isn't literally synonymous to "tin foil hat," but that won't stop this social media age of "plugged-in" lemming who follow whomever has on the "authority" badge, and what they say.
So, bhsmte you
know I could care less about your scoffing (which is arguably much more marginal than most other scoffers.) But, still the ignorance of turning an actual crime into a cultural meme meaning "crazy person" is a reason why the entire world is in shambles. 10-20 years later, you will
swear by everything conspiracy theorists have said in the past - just like it is happening right now. So, I don't worry. But, it is kind of insulting to have people scoff at me, then five years later tell me something as if it is news to me (the same things I have told the people.) It happens often, and when it does it is so bitter-sweet. A lot of time could be saved if scoffing was as intellectually demonized as "creationists, non-evolutionists, or believers in a god."
Victims of demagoguery and programming. The same thing happened in 1940s, in a Deutschland nation. And, if we aren't victims of
not knowing our history so that it doesn't repeat, we should be above demagoguery masked as science to this day. Nope.