They're being 'debated' by people like Watts, who frankly don't count. They use techniques of debate as tools in science, and they are not valid.
It's an unwinnable battle because it's not a battle at all. The science clearly says X with refinement coming along all the time. Refinement, not revolution. On the street, the science is not the sole player, and so it gets dragged into silly scraps with politics, ideology and so on, many of whom don a white coat to appear as science to the audience. The audience, uneducated in the difference, don't care and assume equal value in paired opponents.
The idiocy of the whole thing is beneath my regard.
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Date: 2010-01-29 06:44 pm (UTC)It's an unwinnable battle because it's not a battle at all. The science clearly says X with refinement coming along all the time. Refinement, not revolution. On the street, the science is not the sole player, and so it gets dragged into silly scraps with politics, ideology and so on, many of whom don a white coat to appear as science to the audience. The audience, uneducated in the difference, don't care and assume equal value in paired opponents.
The idiocy of the whole thing is beneath my regard.