No, just willfully ignorant and hypocritical.
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shouldnât that be followed by a nyuk-nyuk?
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Wise Guy!
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I understand what you mean. I have never made any distinction between pseudoscience and mysticism, the difference of vocabulary seems superficial.
The problem is, I think, that to people who donât do the science - it really is just metaphysics to them. To those who do the science, they donât need to believe anything, merely interpret the evidence. But laypeople are told to take it on faith that the science really happens! So how is this different for them than belief in anything else? Functionally, it isnât. They didnât do the work either way.
It seems more practical to avoid belief entirely. Which doesnât preclude anyone from either doing science or engaging in sketchy mystical activities if they choose to.
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What a crock! Try thinking for yourself instead of perpetuating this straw man.
Could you be specific? Feel free to demonstrate the limits of my sloppy thinking.
For once, the âduck faceâ pose is 100% appropriate. You know, for the quackery.
I donât understand idiots who have fallen for the âmy diet is too acidicâ or what ever nonsense. WTF do they think their food is entering? A PH balanced chamber of distilled water?
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You misunderstand my post. I was not conflating faith with natural order, making scientific method an exercise in belief. I said that it becomes faith for laypeople due to the specialized nature of scientific work as a vocation. Meaning the evidence which is meaningful to a trained person is often not meaningful to the untrained.
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Iâve never understood why people look to celebrities as experts on health and science. Most of these folks are not exactly PhDâs (James Franco notwithstanding) and many pursue careers as entertainers specifically because they are really just not that smart.
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Youâll have to forgive me for forgetting that you are the ultimate judge of what others may find meaningful.
Seriously, I didnât misunderstand you at all. I provided three rebukes to your tiresome canard in hopes you will educate yourself. You dismissed one because the title does not seem to apply when in fact all three links directly address the straw man you shamelessly steal and prop up here.
My tiresome canard? I just made one post a few minutes ago, and since your 2nd hand ârebukesâ donât address what I was saying, I would need to conclude that you didnât read or understand it.
Did you miss the part where I suggested not believing anything?
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popobawa4u is a nihilist?
Thereâs nothing to be afraid of.
WHOâS THE FUCKING NIHILIST HERE! WHAT ARE YOU, A BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?
If you know to ask, a surprising number of retail establishments will give you a discount if you show your card.
Also, AARPâs politics lean Democratic instead of Republican, because theyâre actually lobbying for the 99% who are at a very vulnerable time in life. It runs counter to the usual demographics in the two main political parties. Itâs probably the only organization presenting real facts to the core of Fox News listeners in a way that might actually register with them.
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I didnât say this either, my presumptuous friend. Do I need to believe in things for them to exist? Canât I reasonably assume that whatever exists would do regardless of belief?
Anyway, sorry about the derail everybody!
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Well. some of us do, hence the word woo.
I donât think people believe in science blindly, I do think they confuse woo for science though, because woo peddlers try to dress up their mysticism in a lab coat, hence pseudoscience.
Hey donât use it if you donât want, but it does mean something very specific which I am trying to get across, Iâve long stopped trying to make arguments with the vocabulary part of my brain âstrapped behind my backâ. Words do what I tell them to.
Hereâs a song that cuts both ways:
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Homonyms are gay.
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Hey. Just fyi slang hater: âSloppyâ started as slang altho itâs now so common as to be considered part of âregularâ English. Funny how that works, huh? 
I aspire to invent a word that eventually moves from slang to standard English, but it will never likely happen in my gurglefrooz.
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Maybe the insurance corporations intend to use lightnings as âact of godâ to smite the high-cost sick?
