From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Jul 25 1997 - 04:27:03 MDT
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Anton Sherwood wrote:
> Someone has proposed a scale of scientific credibility:
>
> > 10.0 Richard Feynman, Niels Bohr: The standards.
> > 9.0 Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking: No experiments, no 10.
> > 8.0 ?
> > 7.0 Carl Sagan: [...]
> > 6.0 ?
> > 5.0 Andrew Weil: [...]
> > 4.0 Hal Puthoff, Fleischman & Pons: [...]
> > 3.0 ?
> > 2.0 John Gray (Mars/Venus): Interesting ideas, thin on facts.
> > 1.0 ?
> > 0.0 L. Ron Hubbard, Creationists, Astrologers.
>
> The cosmetic ".0" suggests a crackpot who confuses precision with accuracy.
Hmm, how do one use the scale? By voting about it, or are there some
absolute standards (number of proven correct claims/total number of
claims)?
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