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Magpel

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  1. Everyone relies on experts all the time. So? [sigh]. I think it was pretty clear what line of yours I was reacting to, but, really, whatever.
  2. Forming reasonable informed opinions via reading/conversation is more appealing to me. ABSOLUTELY! In the sciences, as with any other highly specialized body of knowledge or practice, you have approximately a 0% chance of ever holding an informed and accurate opinion without some degree of reliance on experts. Tell me your opinion of, you know, angiotensin-converting enzymes, or something. So there have always been imperfect but essential conventions and laws and standards in place to try as best as possible to protect the integrity of knowledge and to document research and experimentation to ensure repeatability. It seems to me we wouldn't have come quite so far if they didn't work to some extent. And science, among most other fields, has NEVER been free from extra-scientific pressures. The marketplace of truths is hardly unique to our era. But anyway, I think it is pretty clear that the so-called growth of the glaciers is actually a kind of fungal infection with concomitant inflammation.
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