"Experts" Won't Even Answer Questions

[juryjone]

Welcome back, roxie. Lovely to see you post and run. Care to wander over to the LC thread and see how geggy's doing? You should be pleased by how he refuses to answer questions. He's a chip off the old rox.

 

[drfrank]

I know the physics department at our University got a letter from someone claiming that people were following him all over the country and using microwave emitters to make him `itch'.

Oddly enough, they didn't reply to him as he was obviously barking mad, at which point he probably assumed that they were part of the conspiracy.

It also reminds me of the time that I emailed Bill Gates demanding him to tell me why all Microsoft keyboards give off gas that makes you more suggestible. They said `he was busy', at which point I knew it must be true if he was avoiding me to that extent

 

[pgwenthold]

I know the physics department at our University got a letter from someone claiming that people were following him all over the country and using microwave emitters to make him `itch'.

Oddly enough, they didn't reply to him as he was obviously barking mad, at which point he probably assumed that they were part of the conspiracy.

Dear XXXX

We are not able to answer your question about the microwave emitters that are making you itch.

We would like to ask, however, how did you figure it out?

regards

 

[WildCat]

Dear XXXX

We are not able to answer your question about the microwave emitters that are making you itch.

We would like to ask, however, how did you figure it out?

regards

Now that is just evil!

 

[CptColumbo]

Go to the theology and history departments at Jones' BYU and ask them to answer questions about the contradictions and hypocracy within the Mormon Church, and see how many answers you get.

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=3383

cb, in my reading last night I came across a section of the book that addresses your OP to the point

pg. 288

... Through vast experience they know, fairly quickly, which new ideas stand a chance of succeeding and which are obviously wrong. Newcomers from other fields, who typically dive in with both feet without the requisite training and experience, proceed to generate new ideas that they think - because of their success in their own field - will be revolutionary. Instead, they are usually greeted with disdain (or, more typically, simply ignored) by the professionals in the field. This is not because (as they usually think is the reason) insiders don't like outsiders (or that all revolutionaries are persecuted or ignored), but because in most cases those ideas were considered years or decades before and rejected for perfectly legitimate reasons.

- Why People Believe Weird Things Michael Shermer