On 8/31/2012 1:16 PM, Big Dog wrote:
> On 8/31/2012 5:55 AM, Alen wrote:
>
> Let me see if I can codify the whiny bitching
Anonymous "Big Dog" (see even though he is unknown with ZERO
credibility, his very name puts him on "top" as a leader. Dig?
And then what he's saying is that he intends to marginalize both the
author of this piece as well as the ideas contained within to justify
the political subversion of science he has come to engage in.
> > Rule 1: Never concede anything positive to the person, or
> > make any positive remarks of any kind. All remarks must
> > amount to negative assertions only. If they say something
> > true, ignore it, and look for something that is easier to
> > criticise.
>
> Complaint 1: Everyone's ideas are worth encouragement, not criticism.
> Ego support is critical for "free thinking".
Comment #1. In science what matters is which ideas are "correct"
(supported by experiment). In politics all that matters is which "side"
the idea is on. All ideas on the other side are "wrong" even if true. To
concede any idea is correct even when that is irrefutable, is to admit
weakeness any you lose the political argument.
> > Rule 2: Make them answer questions. When they answer,
> > ignore their answers, or declare them to be unclear, and
> > ask them more questions. Never be satisfied with what
> > they say. Never concede anything, however small.
>
> Complaint 2: Pointed critiques are unfair. Ideas, now matter how poorly
> baked or thought out, ought to be accepted in the condition they are,
> recognizing that they may still be premature and not thought out.
Comment #2. In a political debate always make the opposition answer your
questions. Ask them even if you know the answers. It keeps the
opposition working on irrelevant nonsense and wastes time they might
have used looking up irrefutable arguments against your position.
> > Rule 3: If they use terminology, refine and narrow the
> > terminology to the maximum extent possible. This will help
> > to create an impression of aberrations in their use of it,
> > and provide the opportunity to make them appear not to
> > understand any of it. Don't validate any item of language
> > they may use. React to everything as if it is confused and
> > cannot be understood.
> Complaint 3: The jargon of a community is an unacceptable barrier and
> should not be an expectation. Otherwise, ordinary people unfamiliar with
> the jargon will not be able to make solid contributions. There is no
> justifiable rationale for jargon.
Comment #3. In a political argument appearance is everything. Actual
facts are nothing. Hence YOU define terminology and you can "adjust"
everyday English words to mean anything you SAY they mean. Examples are
choosing the term: "Anthropogenic Global Warming". That immediately is a
"win" for the CO2 tax side because the very term you use to talk about
climate changes has the fact that the change is "warming" and that it's
"man-made" built right into it. "Deniers" lose!
> > Rule 4: Characterise all their assertions as guesswork or
> > badly prepared fantasies of what they would like reality to
> > be. This will make it appear that reality itself is, as it were,
> > on your side, and certainly not on theirs.
>
> Complaint 4: Never require validation against experimental results, as
> just "thinking about things" should be sufficient for establishing
> truth. Philosophical assertions should have as much weight as scientific
> ones.
Comment #4. Since it's already determined the "debate" is NOT about
science nor using the scientific method, all experimental results are
irrelevant! What matters is what the OBSERVERS of the debate (usually
the public) think is valid results. This can be whatever you say they
are. Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes true in this context.
> > Rule 5: Never recognise or discuss anything as an original
> > or alternative idea. ALWAYS characterise any such idea as
> > ignorance, laziness, incompetence, or failure to learn.
>
> Complaint 5: Brain farts and half-baked notions are still original, and
> originality should be encouraged over fidelity with facts and
> completeness of development. Otherwise, nobody will ever want to pursue
> original ideas as they take too much work.
In politics maintaining the status quo (your power) is the important
thing. Hence any new idea is totally suspect as having potential to
undermine your current power. The best plan is to ridicule the new ideas
and demonize and marginalize their author(s). It is OK to use all your
current political authority to do this no matter how immoral or
unethical or dishonest that might be. It's "natural selection".
> > Rule 7: Always play the role of an examiner and teacher,
> > not a debater. Make it appear everyone has come out of need
> > of recognition, assessment, and correction by your supreme
> > competence, which should play a role equivalent to that of
> > infallibility. Never descend to the level of debate or discussion.
> > Characterise everything said only as competent or incompetent,
> > and focus only what you can portray as incompetent.
> Complaint 6: Never bitch about nonsequential rule numbers.
Comment 6: Always flame the critic over typos and spelling errors as if
that somehow is a test of the new idea and proof of the "debunker's"
massive intellect and infallibility. No one will notice that while you
pretend to be the genius of the universe you are so scared of what you
say that you won't even post under your real name. It's just CB radio
all over again.
> Complaint 7: The important thing is civilized debate, not the truth of
> the subject matter. If there is something that is shown to be false by
> critical examination, continued civilized discussion should be fostered
> as though there were still something worth talking about.
In politics YOU need to control the debate and give the impression that
your side is the correct one. Hence any real scientific discussion is
out. That demands an actual discussion of facts with both sides giving
and taking as evidence comes out. This is DEATH in a political debate.
Correctness in a political debate is determined by who can brainwash
your audience the best. The way to win any political debate is to get
jay Leno and David Letterman to make jokes ridiculing your opposition.
> > Rule 8: If anyone does come up with a difficult argument,
> > don't even think about it. You are here to triumph over them,
> > not debate with them. Either ignore it, or call it ignorant and
> > incompetent. That is always an easy and unanswerable
> > assertion where persons of no status are concerned.
>
> Complaint 8: Never tell any amateur that someone else already
> entertained this idea a long time ago, and it was swiftly evaluated and
> dismissed. Every amateur who comes up with the same idea should be
> allowed to explore it in the same way and with the same validation as it
> was originally.
Comment #8 If anyone starts to point out the political techniques you
are using call them an "amateur" and ridicule their competence.
Everybody knows that science is done by popular vote. If they do have a
difficult and valid argument just follow rule 8. We call that the "Sam
Wormley" rule as he has yet to answer ANY difficult question.
> > Rule 9: Always keep recommending that they undertake
> > some basic studies of the matter. This will create the
> > appearance that they don't understand and haven't studied
> > any part of what they discuss. It will thus give them the
> > appearances of novices who know nothing, and speak
> > before they have made any proper attempt to learn anything.
>
> Complaint 9: Do not expect free thinkers to become educated in the
> basics, as they are fastidiously avoiding education, because of the risk
> of brainwashing and being forced to believe in orthodoxy.
Comment #9. If you tell people you "know it all" they will repeat it not
remembering WHERE they heard it. I used to work with a guy a real clown.
(let's call him Ernie). And someone said to me one day: "I heard that
Ernie is really smart!" And I said, "where did you hear that?" They
said, "I don't know!" And I said, "You HEARD IT FROM EARNIE!" Dig?
> > Rule 10: No matter what they may have said in the past,
> > always go back to the beginning, and speak as if they have
> > never yet said anything at all. In this way, always endeavour
> > to bring them back to a starting line, so that they can never
> > appear to make any progress away from it.
> Complaint 10: Always consider usenet forums to be permanent records of
> publications, so that readers are expected to gather together previous
> postings by an author to get the full sweep of their accomplishments.
> Don't expect previous references. And by all means, make sure that
> volume of output counts for something at least, even if every single
> item is individually ridiculous. Someone who is insane and produces ten
> pages of densely packed equations every day might be writing nonsense,
> but at least validate him for producing several thousand pages of
> densely packed equations. That took work!
Comment #10. Word to the wise. Debaters forget that this is USENET and
there is a RECORD of all their lies and stupid statements. So when when
they make statements (Like Sam's insistence durning record cold that
"weather is not climate" and climate takes 30 years of average to
determine any results) when the tables turn (Like Sam's use of record
heat wave in U.S. to imply global warming) take quotes of those orignal
statements and jam them right up your opponent's nose...HARD!
This is an important discussion because often science-types are rather
nerdy and apolitical. So hard-core "dirty tricks" political methods
rather take them by surprise. They are not ready. But they had better
get ready quick, because as should be obvious here and now, politics is
taking over all science in a great many ways and if left unchecked, will
end real science for quite some time. Think about it.