Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Daily LOLs

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KTHXBYE

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Beating my head against a wall

I have a friend, lets call him Bob. I am very interested in scientific topic X, which is commonly accepted scientific fact. Bob denies that enough evidence exists to prove that X is indeed a scientific fact, and insists that I read all sorts of literature to the contrary, which normally turns out to be extensively wordy, nitpicking and non-scientific.

Bob continues to send me things he has found on the internet, which I have gotten tired of reading because they are very long, and of no educational value. I have decided to ignore Bob in all communications of these sorts.

If I present an article to Bob, he either questions the source, questions the studies done in the source. He then sends me articles of questionable sources. There is such a wealth of evidence for X and I just don't have time to make a case for this. There are so many excellent books making an excellent case for X, yet Bob refuses to read any of them, and instead points to articles on how the authors of these books are somehow non-credible.

I know I will never "convert" bob, but how can I let him know that I just don't wish to discuss this with him, without him saying..."I win, ha ha", or without him using my abstention as further "proof" of the strength of his argument?