Great analogy from John Harrington! Allow me to illustrate what talking science with people on the internet is like with a football analogy. Did you see the 49ers play the Seahawks yesterday? Of course I did. Im an insane football fan, and the 49ers are my favorite team. Did you see it? No, but I didnt need to. Obviously the score was bullshit. Im sorry? The ... score was ... bullshit? Yes, the lie-beral media want you to believe the Seahawks won 17 to 7, but actually the 49ers won. Huh. Really? I saw that game. I played college ball. I know quite a bit about football, and I can assure you that the Seahawks won. It was pretty clear. LOLOLOLOL, youre soooo brainwashed. Youve drunk the Kool-Aid. I can prove it. In the second inning, when the quarterback made a hole in one... Wait a minute. Inning? Hole in one? These arent even football terms. Whatever. Okay, so I got the terms wrong. Yes, yes you did. Okay, so I got the terms wrong. Sorry. Anyway, let me explain to you why the very way they score football is wrong and why Ive developed my own better way to score football. Hold on. You just showed you dont know the very first things about football, but now youre going to tell me why the whole football industry doesnt understand the game like you do? Look, when American football first evolved from Rugby in 1689... Stop. Youre just looking things up on Wikipedia now to sound authoritative. And you transposed that date. Its 1869, not 1689.... Look, you do know, right, that there are people who devote their lives to football who understand it way better than you do, and they pretty much all agree that football is scored the right way. Oh, great, an argument from authority. Football games arent won by consensus, my friend. Its not authority. You dont know the very first things about what youre talking about. Doesnt it stand to reason that they understand it and you dont? You dont need to know everything about it to see that its all based on bullshit. And so on. It seems very easy for someone who actually knows nothing to convince himself that he knows enough to make sweeping statements in an authoritative tone about an entire subject. I wonder why this is.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:08:36 +0000
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