It's like with genetically modified food, all of Europe bans it but nobody stops them in the US.
Oh, you're going to get some knee-jerks with that one.
Incidentally, the capitalist way of dealing with GMOs would be to let anybody sell any genetically modified food they want, as long as it had large informative labeling on it. Scientists would love this, too, since it would let us do serious studies of how various different genetically modified organisms interact with public health. Informative labeling is good for researchers as well as for free markets.
But, we don't do that; instead we reward the makers of GM crops for allowing their products to contaminate others' fields, and allow everyone to sell GM products without informing the consumer. Recently there have even been attempts to prevent organic milk producers from labeling their products as non-BGH!
Why? Because you'd have to charge less for GM food. People won't pay the same money for an apple that's unfamiliar to them, if they can feed their children a well known reliable apple instead. And you not only have to lie to people about what you're selling, you have to prevent others from labeling their stuff accurately, too, in order to completely subvert the marketplace. That's why pseudo-libertarian corporate shills want to ban labeling stuff as non-GMO - it's to eliminate informed choice, which is what makes free markets work.
So although GM food may cost less to produce, in a fair market you can't charge the same price for it. You have to swindle the customer into buying, which is easy enough if you are already rich enough to buy and sell congressmen like bars of soap. And thus did capitalism die.
It's not nontoxic because you put it in a vaccines, it's nontoxic because it's part of the molecule C9H9HgNaO2S.
C9H9HgNaO2S is toxic as hell. It's used in vaccines for the same reason we put highly toxic chlorine gas in our water supply; it is believed that humans can survive small doses much more readily than we can survive the bacteria these toxins kill.
From wikipedia (where it is extensively documented):
"Thiomersal [C9H9HgNaO2S] is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects. It is also very toxic to aquatic organisms and may cause long-term adverse effects in aquatic environments (EC hazard symbol N). In the body, it is metabolized or degraded to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.
Few studies of the toxicity of thiomersal in humans have been performed. Cases have been reported of severe poisoning by accidental exposure or attempted suicide, with some fatalities. Animal experiments suggest that thiomersal rapidly dissociates to release ethylmercury after injection; that the disposition patterns of mercury are similar to those after exposure to equivalent doses of ethylmercury chloride; and that the central nervous system and the kidneys are targets, with lack of motor coordination being a common sign. Similar signs and symptoms have been observed in accidental human poisonings. The mechanisms of toxic action are unknown. Fecal excretion accounts for most of the elimination from the body. Ethylmercury clears from blood with a half-life of about 18 days in adults. Ethylmercury is eliminated from the brain in about 14 days in infant monkeys. Inorganic mercury metabolized from ethylmercury has a much longer half-life, at least 120 days; though it appears to be much less toxic than the inorganic mercury produced from mercury vapor, for reasons not yet understood."
Really, the only reason to use mercury preservatives in vaccines is because retooling to use something else is expensive. There are far less controversial alternatives.
Right now I am seeing quad-core Xeon 1U Dell rackmounts with 146 GB hard drives and 2GB or more of RAM in corporate dumpsters. Lots of desktop stuff too.
Hardware is free as long as you can afford to spend your labor & time on it.
There is a false vividness to every weather event now due to AGW sensationalism.
Good point, but I would say "due to media sensationalism" myself.
If they yammer incessantly about the weather, they won't have to tackle anything controversial - like the collapse of the petrodollar, or increasing illiteracy and anti-immigrationism in western countries, or the death spiral of public education in the USA, or anything that might have more than one valid interpretation. Weather and "celebrities" can substitute handily for news; it's current, and won't offend any corporate sponsors.
...since accurate weather records have only been kept for a little over 100 years...
Why do you say that? Where did you hear this? It's not true. We have plenty of records older than that. It's true we only have 100 years of direct carbon dioxide measurements, but we have lots of accurate weather records going back to the 1500s and earlier.
None of that really matters of course. What matters is whether you think it's a good idea to crap in your own breakfast cereal every morning. If you think that's a good idea, you are pro-pollution. If you are smart enough to figure out that eventually the bowl will fill up, you ought to be anti-pollution. "Global warming", as a political issue, is just a sideshow for chuckleheads and know-nothings, to keep people distracted from the obvious foolishness of converting valuable, limited petroleum and coal resources into global air pollution.
Myself, I can't tell the difference between an iPad and a windows 98 tablet computer at ten feet.
And at fifty feet, you could be holding an etch-a-sketch for all I know. I mean seriously, how much detail do you want me to discern from a nearly featureless slab of plastic?
We connected our enterprise to the Internet in October 1992. Starting roughly two weeks from that time, we have been under continuous attack from various robots, disgruntled former employees, botnets, viruses, worms, and possibly space aliens. Honestly, we really don't even try to check on the origin of these attacks, we just tarpit them all.
Should you require more detail, we can arrange a real-time feed from our firewall systems, which are currently being attacked roughly every four seconds, just like every other network of our size in the entire world.
Please feel free to attempt to determine the source and purpose of these attacks, since clearly you are no longer interested in monitoring the world's business economy and thus helping ensuring a free and fair marketplace.
Sincerely, --Any Large Internet-connected Business
The advantage of using speech over other interaction paradigms is that we have honed its use over thousands of years. It is entirely natural for us to talk to one another. [...] It's a much more natural approach than using a mouse on a desktop.
Does this guy think talking evolved before pointing at things? How odd.
Eben Moglen famously said "What I saw in the Xerox PARC technology was the caveman interface, you point and you grunt. A massive winding down, regressing away from language, in order to address the technological nervousness of the user. Users wanted to be infantilized, to return to a pre-linguistic condition in the using of computers, and the Xerox PARC technology`s primary advantage was that it allowed users to address computers in a pre-linguistic way."
You don't have to agree with Moglen's idea that the mouse infantilizes users in order to recognize that it's a fundamentally simpler form of machine interaction than language will ever be. I can see arguing that language is a richer interface, sure, but more natural? That seems like some lame PR to me.
I was going to suggest "sudo bash", others have suggested "sudo -i" and "sudo su" which should also work. All will give you a root shell.
Yes, but they won't give you root's PATH or other root-appropriate environment settings ("sudo -i" is supposed to get you pretty close, but that may be modified by the settings in the sudoers file). You won't really be capable of acting as root.
"sudo su -" (note the trailing dash) will make you root and also build root's environment for you, so that you will actually be functionally identical to a root login.
Obama HATES the Second Amendment and will commit any crime to violate your rights. Over 201 murders can be directly attributed to Obama's administration.
But you can't be bothered to list them, or provide evidence, of course. Here, watch this, it's funny.
That's a pretty good start on a howto, there (as somebody commented, you ought to find a Brit to add SCART).
My kids and octogenarian grandfather would have no problem following it. The pictures of connectors and corresponding tables work really well.
But my mother would never find it useful, because she doesn't want to know how to hook up electronics. She doesn't need to change her attitude, either - she's just fine the way things are! Similarly, I don't want to know how to deconstruct poetry or mine gypsum, no matter how useful those skills might be. That stuff is boring.
So I guess I'm saying "don't worry about it, you've already led the horses to the water. They'll drink when they're ready."
The single-taxers original aim was to outnumber everyone else in Delaware and thus control its government. They were surprised to find out that the existing population was highly resistant and that their philosophy was not capable of attracting the requisite number of people (of the land-owning classes) from outside. Similar problems may lay waiting in New Hampshire for the FSP, but hopefully they will at least be able to create a viable community like the Ardens.
As for inheritance - well, I believe that people should earn their money. Idle people who live off the leavings of their ancestors are generally amoral vermin; I say this not for philosophical reasons, but because I have spent considerable time in their company. There is such a thing as the "nobility of labor," that several of our founding fathers espoused; and it is most notable when it is absent.
This is probably a function of time of purchase. I have not seen anyone buy a laptop that didn't have a TV-out of some sort (composite, DVI, HDMI or S-video) for years, but it seems like VGA inputs are just starting to become standard on HDTVs recently, and HDMI-out on video cards still isn't really widespread (although obviously it is already commonplace on gamer video cards). I just happen to have bought my first HDTV last solstice; early adopters are probably more limited.
Free state project, ah, yes. I happen to live near a place where something similar was already tried - ever hear of Arden, Delaware? The single-taxers came up with the same kind of math as the freestate guys use, based on the fact that Delaware is a small state with low population (at the time, anyway). I wish them the best of luck & hope they succeed; diversity is the hallmark of a healthy ecosystem! But there's no way they will accomplish anything before my children are adults.
As for inheritance, dead guys have no money. It is illegal and impossible for the dead to have physical assets. You have to understand and acknowledge that before you can get past the "death tax" and "money taxed twice" chump memes. At the moment of death, all one's assets become part of an estate, which is not controlled by or owned by anyone who is dead. This is a fact, not subject to opinion or interpretation.
In any case, why are you accusing me of things I haven't said? I never said I had a "right" to anybody's money, alive or dead. You made that up out of thin air. Trying to shift other people's positions into direct opposition with heavily funded, popular memes is a manipulative, dishonest rhetorical trick and you ought to be ashamed of it.
Support a candidate who will work to abolish the personal income tax. That's why homeschooling isn't possible for most families. You're paying for big government at your child's detriment.
Honestly I was looking for something that would actually happen in my lifetime.
Anyway, I've been against income & sales taxes all my adult life. I would prefer an extremely high inheritance tax combined with a small asset tax. Income tax punishes people for working hard and sales tax punishes people for participating in the marketplace, while low property and inheritance taxes create a parasitic aristocracy that is detrimental to good government.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." --John Steinbeck
Rossi is claiming to have discovered a "fusion catalyst". Just as a chemical catalyst overcomes energy transfer requirements for normal wet chemical reactions without being consumed, he says he can likewise bypass some of the normal restrictions of fusion.
Yes, clearly, a very extraordinary claim. One I do not suggest we should believe without extraordinary proof!
But dismissing the claim out of hand seems just as unwise as sinking one's life savings into it.
You wrote:
This first requirement makes fusion in solid (or even liquid) state materials so highly improbable that it must be proven by the claimant before it is worth looking at by anyone else.
Doesn't that set up an unsuperable obstacle to progress? I'm reading that as "prove it to me even though I refuse to look at your proof" which can't be what you meant.
Rossi says he will prove his process, under his conditions, in his own time. Unlike others who have said similar things, he is apparently not asking for money. I am witholding judgment, personally, but I have to scoff at those who credulously believe or disbelieve without waiting for real evidence.
Individual parents and teachers do teach. Well, some of them do, anyway.
But what the institution of US public school does is force conformance. Through any means necessary, including killing or imprisoning those children who can't or won't follow meaningless orders. These insane, anti-child "zero tolerance" policies are literally driving kids to suicide.
The level of control that principals and school boards are required by law to exercise has always attracted sadists and child abusers; the evil schoolmaster is an archetype. This is because we legally empower them to exert humiliating emotional and psychological abuse on entire school populations. The sick need of such people to dominate children is valued by the public school system, so why wouldn't they gravitate to where their evil compulsions will be rewarded? Remember how the Cub Scouts used to attract paedophiles, before they reformed their leadership system to put a stop to it? This is the same principle at work; our system (particularly the "zero tolerance" nonsense, and "No Child Left Untested" initiative) selects for and rewards despotic, control-freak school administrators.
I have two kids in school, and I'm a product of the US public school system. My sisters are schoolteachers. I know of what I speak.
Well, that wasn't my intention; rather than staking out the middle, I wanted to be on the side of the iconoclasts (like James Randi etc.) where I could presumably drink a few beers and mock their unthinking, dronelike followers. It's fun, try it! Moo at them, maybe somebody will be enlightened, and we'll have done some good in the world. If not, well, have a beer anyway.
I'm not even sure there is a middle ground between people who think for themselves and people who follow gurus.
You need a preacher-man to tell you what to believe, or you will be incapable of believing it. A "trained" man.
For some people, the preacher-man has to wear robes and a funny collar. For others, the preacher has to wear a white lab coat and have a sheepskin on his wall. But in either case, the basic idea of evaluating observations rigorously through hypotheses and experimentation is not present. Instead, all data that does not conform to dogma is discarded out of hand.
See, even if I don't necessarily believe that another person's theories are valid, I will always defend a person's use of direct observation and physical experimentation against any dogma-based, faith-in-the-preacher-man attacks. You can be wrong by any method, including the scientific method, but it's the best method we've got, and the interesting science is in the corners, where the anomalous observations are reported.
Nobody ever discovered anything important by saying "that guy's reports don't match the textbook answers, so he must be wrong!" but lots of advances have come from somebody saying "this guy's report doesn't make sense - let's investigate."
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, you're going to get some knee-jerks with that one.
Incidentally, the capitalist way of dealing with GMOs would be to let anybody sell any genetically modified food they want, as long as it had large informative labeling on it. Scientists would love this, too, since it would let us do serious studies of how various different genetically modified organisms interact with public health. Informative labeling is good for researchers as well as for free markets.
But, we don't do that; instead we reward the makers of GM crops for allowing their products to contaminate others' fields, and allow everyone to sell GM products without informing the consumer. Recently there have even been attempts to prevent organic milk producers from labeling their products as non-BGH!
Why? Because you'd have to charge less for GM food. People won't pay the same money for an apple that's unfamiliar to them, if they can feed their children a well known reliable apple instead. And you not only have to lie to people about what you're selling, you have to prevent others from labeling their stuff accurately, too, in order to completely subvert the marketplace. That's why pseudo-libertarian corporate shills want to ban labeling stuff as non-GMO - it's to eliminate informed choice, which is what makes free markets work.
So although GM food may cost less to produce, in a fair market you can't charge the same price for it. You have to swindle the customer into buying, which is easy enough if you are already rich enough to buy and sell congressmen like bars of soap. And thus did capitalism die.
Hmm, better get back on topic. OK, I see Randall will have to revise the electromagnetic spectrum to remove "cell phone cancer rays"
C9H9HgNaO2S is toxic as hell. It's used in vaccines for the same reason we put highly toxic chlorine gas in our water supply; it is believed that humans can survive small doses much more readily than we can survive the bacteria these toxins kill.
From wikipedia (where it is extensively documented):
"Thiomersal [C9H9HgNaO2S] is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects. It is also very toxic to aquatic organisms and may cause long-term adverse effects in aquatic environments (EC hazard symbol N). In the body, it is metabolized or degraded to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.
Few studies of the toxicity of thiomersal in humans have been performed. Cases have been reported of severe poisoning by accidental exposure or attempted suicide, with some fatalities. Animal experiments suggest that thiomersal rapidly dissociates to release ethylmercury after injection; that the disposition patterns of mercury are similar to those after exposure to equivalent doses of ethylmercury chloride; and that the central nervous system and the kidneys are targets, with lack of motor coordination being a common sign. Similar signs and symptoms have been observed in accidental human poisonings. The mechanisms of toxic action are unknown. Fecal excretion accounts for most of the elimination from the body. Ethylmercury clears from blood with a half-life of about 18 days in adults. Ethylmercury is eliminated from the brain in about 14 days in infant monkeys. Inorganic mercury metabolized from ethylmercury has a much longer half-life, at least 120 days; though it appears to be much less toxic than the inorganic mercury produced from mercury vapor, for reasons not yet understood."
Really, the only reason to use mercury preservatives in vaccines is because retooling to use something else is expensive. There are far less controversial alternatives.
Right now I am seeing quad-core Xeon 1U Dell rackmounts with 146 GB hard drives and 2GB or more of RAM in corporate dumpsters. Lots of desktop stuff too.
Hardware is free as long as you can afford to spend your labor & time on it.
Good point, but I would say "due to media sensationalism" myself.
If they yammer incessantly about the weather, they won't have to tackle anything controversial - like the collapse of the petrodollar, or increasing illiteracy and anti-immigrationism in western countries, or the death spiral of public education in the USA, or anything that might have more than one valid interpretation. Weather and "celebrities" can substitute handily for news; it's current, and won't offend any corporate sponsors.
Bread and circuses! Now with 4% less bread!
Why do you say that? Where did you hear this? It's not true. We have plenty of records older than that. It's true we only have 100 years of direct carbon dioxide measurements, but we have lots of accurate weather records going back to the 1500s and earlier.
None of that really matters of course. What matters is whether you think it's a good idea to crap in your own breakfast cereal every morning. If you think that's a good idea, you are pro-pollution. If you are smart enough to figure out that eventually the bowl will fill up, you ought to be anti-pollution. "Global warming", as a political issue, is just a sideshow for chuckleheads and know-nothings, to keep people distracted from the obvious foolishness of converting valuable, limited petroleum and coal resources into global air pollution.
Good thing global climate change is just a liberal hoax, or we'd be in real trouble!
Myself, I can't tell the difference between an iPad and a windows 98 tablet computer at ten feet.
And at fifty feet, you could be holding an etch-a-sketch for all I know. I mean seriously, how much detail do you want me to discern from a nearly featureless slab of plastic?
Dear SEC,
We connected our enterprise to the Internet in October 1992. Starting roughly two weeks from that time, we have been under continuous attack from various robots, disgruntled former employees, botnets, viruses, worms, and possibly space aliens. Honestly, we really don't even try to check on the origin of these attacks, we just tarpit them all.
Should you require more detail, we can arrange a real-time feed from our firewall systems, which are currently being attacked roughly every four seconds, just like every other network of our size in the entire world.
Please feel free to attempt to determine the source and purpose of these attacks, since clearly you are no longer interested in monitoring the world's business economy and thus helping ensuring a free and fair marketplace.
Sincerely,
--Any Large Internet-connected Business
Does this guy think talking evolved before pointing at things? How odd.
Eben Moglen famously said "What I saw in the Xerox PARC technology was the caveman interface, you point and you grunt. A massive winding down, regressing away from language, in order to address the technological nervousness of the user. Users wanted to be infantilized, to return to a pre-linguistic condition in the using of computers, and the Xerox PARC technology`s primary advantage was that it allowed users to address computers in a pre-linguistic way."
You don't have to agree with Moglen's idea that the mouse infantilizes users in order to recognize that it's a fundamentally simpler form of machine interaction than language will ever be. I can see arguing that language is a richer interface, sure, but more natural? That seems like some lame PR to me.
Yes, but they won't give you root's PATH or other root-appropriate environment settings ("sudo -i" is supposed to get you pretty close, but that may be modified by the settings in the sudoers file). You won't really be capable of acting as root.
"sudo su -" (note the trailing dash) will make you root and also build root's environment for you, so that you will actually be functionally identical to a root login.
But you can't be bothered to list them, or provide evidence, of course. Here, watch this, it's funny.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-29-2011/wayne-s-world
That's a pretty good start on a howto, there (as somebody commented, you ought to find a Brit to add SCART).
My kids and octogenarian grandfather would have no problem following it. The pictures of connectors and corresponding tables work really well.
But my mother would never find it useful, because she doesn't want to know how to hook up electronics. She doesn't need to change her attitude, either - she's just fine the way things are! Similarly, I don't want to know how to deconstruct poetry or mine gypsum, no matter how useful those skills might be. That stuff is boring.
So I guess I'm saying "don't worry about it, you've already led the horses to the water. They'll drink when they're ready."
The single-taxers original aim was to outnumber everyone else in Delaware and thus control its government. They were surprised to find out that the existing population was highly resistant and that their philosophy was not capable of attracting the requisite number of people (of the land-owning classes) from outside. Similar problems may lay waiting in New Hampshire for the FSP, but hopefully they will at least be able to create a viable community like the Ardens.
As for inheritance - well, I believe that people should earn their money. Idle people who live off the leavings of their ancestors are generally amoral vermin; I say this not for philosophical reasons, but because I have spent considerable time in their company. There is such a thing as the "nobility of labor," that several of our founding fathers espoused; and it is most notable when it is absent.
Good footnoting, there, tepples!
This is probably a function of time of purchase. I have not seen anyone buy a laptop that didn't have a TV-out of some sort (composite, DVI, HDMI or S-video) for years, but it seems like VGA inputs are just starting to become standard on HDTVs recently, and HDMI-out on video cards still isn't really widespread (although obviously it is already commonplace on gamer video cards). I just happen to have bought my first HDTV last solstice; early adopters are probably more limited.
Thank you, I will check!
I can already do all that stuff without having the TV and PC share a case. My computers have HDMI out and my TV has VGA in.
Free state project, ah, yes. I happen to live near a place where something similar was already tried - ever hear of Arden, Delaware? The single-taxers came up with the same kind of math as the freestate guys use, based on the fact that Delaware is a small state with low population (at the time, anyway). I wish them the best of luck & hope they succeed; diversity is the hallmark of a healthy ecosystem! But there's no way they will accomplish anything before my children are adults.
As for inheritance, dead guys have no money. It is illegal and impossible for the dead to have physical assets. You have to understand and acknowledge that before you can get past the "death tax" and "money taxed twice" chump memes. At the moment of death, all one's assets become part of an estate, which is not controlled by or owned by anyone who is dead. This is a fact, not subject to opinion or interpretation.
In any case, why are you accusing me of things I haven't said? I never said I had a "right" to anybody's money, alive or dead. You made that up out of thin air. Trying to shift other people's positions into direct opposition with heavily funded, popular memes is a manipulative, dishonest rhetorical trick and you ought to be ashamed of it.
Honestly I was looking for something that would actually happen in my lifetime.
Anyway, I've been against income & sales taxes all my adult life. I would prefer an extremely high inheritance tax combined with a small asset tax. Income tax punishes people for working hard and sales tax punishes people for participating in the marketplace, while low property and inheritance taxes create a parasitic aristocracy that is detrimental to good government.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." --John Steinbeck
Thank you for your illuminating post!
Rossi is claiming to have discovered a "fusion catalyst". Just as a chemical catalyst overcomes energy transfer requirements for normal wet chemical reactions without being consumed, he says he can likewise bypass some of the normal restrictions of fusion.
Yes, clearly, a very extraordinary claim. One I do not suggest we should believe without extraordinary proof!
But dismissing the claim out of hand seems just as unwise as sinking one's life savings into it.
You wrote:
Doesn't that set up an unsuperable obstacle to progress? I'm reading that as "prove it to me even though I refuse to look at your proof" which can't be what you meant.
Rossi says he will prove his process, under his conditions, in his own time. Unlike others who have said similar things, he is apparently not asking for money. I am witholding judgment, personally, but I have to scoff at those who credulously believe or disbelieve without waiting for real evidence.
Individual parents and teachers do teach. Well, some of them do, anyway.
But what the institution of US public school does is force conformance. Through any means necessary, including killing or imprisoning those children who can't or won't follow meaningless orders. These insane, anti-child "zero tolerance" policies are literally driving kids to suicide.
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/a-zero-tolerance-policy-and-a-suicide/
http://www.campaignforyouthjustice.org/Downloads/NationalReportsArticles/CFYJ-Jailing_Juveniles_Report_2007-11-15.pdf
http://www.stopschoolstojails.org/content/background
http://www.advancementproject.org/digital-library/publications/education-on-lockdown-the-schoolhouse-to-jailhouse-track
The level of control that principals and school boards are required by law to exercise has always attracted sadists and child abusers; the evil schoolmaster is an archetype. This is because we legally empower them to exert humiliating emotional and psychological abuse on entire school populations. The sick need of such people to dominate children is valued by the public school system, so why wouldn't they gravitate to where their evil compulsions will be rewarded? Remember how the Cub Scouts used to attract paedophiles, before they reformed their leadership system to put a stop to it? This is the same principle at work; our system (particularly the "zero tolerance" nonsense, and "No Child Left Untested" initiative) selects for and rewards despotic, control-freak school administrators.
I have two kids in school, and I'm a product of the US public school system. My sisters are schoolteachers. I know of what I speak.
I dunno the answer, but I sure could use it.
I can't afford to home-school or that would be the obvious solution.
How have you determined the minimum temperature at which fusion can occur?
Seriously, I'm interested.
Well, that wasn't my intention; rather than staking out the middle, I wanted to be on the side of the iconoclasts (like James Randi etc.) where I could presumably drink a few beers and mock their unthinking, dronelike followers. It's fun, try it! Moo at them, maybe somebody will be enlightened, and we'll have done some good in the world. If not, well, have a beer anyway.
I'm not even sure there is a middle ground between people who think for themselves and people who follow gurus.
Exactly my point. :)
You need a preacher-man to tell you what to believe, or you will be incapable of believing it. A "trained" man.
For some people, the preacher-man has to wear robes and a funny collar. For others, the preacher has to wear a white lab coat and have a sheepskin on his wall. But in either case, the basic idea of evaluating observations rigorously through hypotheses and experimentation is not present. Instead, all data that does not conform to dogma is discarded out of hand.
See, even if I don't necessarily believe that another person's theories are valid, I will always defend a person's use of direct observation and physical experimentation against any dogma-based, faith-in-the-preacher-man attacks. You can be wrong by any method, including the scientific method, but it's the best method we've got, and the interesting science is in the corners, where the anomalous observations are reported.
Nobody ever discovered anything important by saying "that guy's reports don't match the textbook answers, so he must be wrong!" but lots of advances have come from somebody saying "this guy's report doesn't make sense - let's investigate."