PMM wrote: What I do see time after time... is people misinterpreting questions as aggression.
keith a wrote: Well, sorry, I'm not going to be bullied by Merrick, you or anyone else.
Edit: Actually, this discussion (well this bit of it anyway, quite apart from the specific issue of the rozzers) is a tiny mirror reflecting something bigger.
We ask questions to try to establish truths. To find out what fits.
MachineryElf posted something on facebook about it. A link to a guardian article by a guy called Ben Goldacre.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/14/bad-science-ben-goldacre-randomised-trials
Essentially he's saying, bollocks to ideologies and set in stone positions. Run trials. Ask questions. Find out what actually happens in the real world rather than trying to shoehorn in your assumptions and prejudices.
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