Before I continue on to today's post, a quick announcement. The prolific INVISIBLE ARTERIES mastermind has started a new blog called OPIUM HUM which is linked to the right. I knew he'd be back, just didn't think it would be so soon. Moving on, having participated in so many pointless debates with anti-fluoridation pseudoscientists, rather than taking a hardline (perhaps even confrontational) approach at argumentation with these ill read hackjobs, maybe nurturing educational tactics would be more effective. After all, anti-fluoridation people tend to like that sort of hippie crap. Thus, my next few posts will be a lecture series on understanding science (with a lowercase "s"). Part one covers scientific proof and the spectrum of certainty. Certainty is the enemy of science and you should cautious of anyone who is absolutely certain of anything (especially when a highly emotionally loaded claim is made).
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