[_ Old Earth _] The difference between normal people and scientists

[Barbarian]

 

[Corn Pop]

Scientists want to create human life through DNA why innocent babies are being aborted.


I will never understand society.

 

[Barbarian]

Scientists want to create human life through DNA why innocent babies are being aborted.

I thought you spoke English in New Zealand.

 

[brother Paul]

Apparently from this we can conclude scientists are more stupid than normal people! Apparently common sense is just not that common...the one thing we do learn from history is that we do not learn from history!

 

[Barbarian]

Scientists put a higher value on knowledge than personal safety in many cases. The history of science is filled with such stories. As one scientist put it, "who wouldn't take another zap if you could learn how a lightning box worked?" (Edit: a lot of people, it seems; curiosity isn't the compelling drive in most people, that it is in scientists)

But not every scientist would actually do what that one was considering. In reality, a scientist probably wouldn't touch the lever again. He'd get one of his grad students to do it.

 

[jasonc]

Scientists put a higher value on knowledge than personal safety in many cases. The history of science is filled with such stories. As one scientist put it, "who wouldn't take another zap if you could learn how a lightning box worked?" (Edit: a lot of people, it seems; curiosity isn't the compelling drive in most people, that it is in scientists)

But not every scientist would actually do what that one was considering. In reality, a scientist probably wouldn't touch the lever again. He'd get one of his grad students to do it.

If he lived.yeah real moral.yeah it's going to harm you ,let's have you test for me as he smells the fresh burn marks.

 

[Barbarian]

Ooops. Forgot the WFTH-I. My bad.

But yes, scientists have, over the years, taken breathtakingly dangerous steps when they couldn't figure out a save way to get the data. It's like some military jobs. Most of us wouldn't do them, but we should be very, very grateful that some people will.

 

[jasonc]

Ooops. Forgot the WFTH-I. My bad.

But yes, scientists have, over the years, taken breathtakingly dangerous steps when they couldn't figure out a save way to get the data. It's like some military jobs. Most of us wouldn't do them, but we should be very, very grateful that some people will.

I understand the curiosity, but common sense is one thing.

 

[Barbarian]

Common sense would preclude climbing down into an active volcano. But people do it, for science. As I said, I wouldn't do some of that, but I'm glad there are people who will.

 

[jasonc]

Common sense would preclude climbing down into an active volcano. But people do it, for science. As I said, I wouldn't do some of that, but I'm glad there are people who will.

So why not volunteer to have a disease ,say the zika virus,we need a test subject.

We didn't just launch men in space first, thus my point.risks are necessary but again some aren't given technology.

 

[Barbarian]

So why not volunteer to have a disease ,say the zika virus,we need a test subject.

Been done. More than once.

Parasitologist Paul Prociv infected himself to further his research
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/06/04/4248031.htm

Science is a calling. You can call it work if you want to, but for people lucky enough to have been able to do it, it's pure fun.

 

[Mike S]

I tried being normal, but I got bored.

 

[brother Paul]

Nothing special about "normal", it means average. In the bell curve system most psychologists use to determine the demographic "normal" Einstein was abnormal. once when I participated as a "normal" control at Boston State (in a study of paranoid schizophrenics) my scores hit the center of the peak of the bell curve. The joke was that I was "the most normal" which made me utterly abnormal.

 

[Barbarian]

My personality type is less than 3 percent of the population. After a while, when one is young, one gets to like that. Someone once proposed a "geek test" in which high school students would be offered a hypothetical deal:

"If you could, would you be willing to be the most popular kid in school, but only have normal intelligence?"

INTPs invariably reject the idea out of hand.

 

[turnorburn]

I'll have some respect for science after they stop the release of radiation at Fukushima.. that's just for beginners..

 

[Barbarian]

I'll have some respect for science after they stop the release of radiation at Fukushima.. that's just for beginners..

You've confused scientists with engineers.

 

[turnorburn]

Science brought us the nuclear age.. was Einstein was an engineer..

 

[Mike S]

I want one thing answered by scientists/engineers...do androids dream of electric sheep?

 

[Milk-Drops]

I want one thing answered by scientists/engineers...do androids dream of electric sheep?

Sadly it will all be lost, like tears in the rain.

 

[brother Paul]

The only thing that's normal is that there is no such thing as normal....each and every one is totally unique....each is like a finger print. Each is God's poema (work of art)....even identical twins with the same DNA have differences when eye scanned and have different fingerprints. Each has differences of personalty....everyone is on a 1% or 3% depending on the system of categorization one is using to group them....the same is true for everything man categorizes.