How to post on Science forums: A guide for Quacks

[Arete]

What do you know of Gneiss, schists, chert, erosion and sediment , by your profile I thought you were an atomic submarine optical specialist/expert , not a Geologist

 

Whats going on here , everyone's suddenly become an Earth Science enthusiast !

 

 

He has quite the conglomerate of knowledge, it quite comendite-able.

[swansont]

I am the very model of a modern major general.

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

I am the very model of a modern major general.

 

Good night Gilbert o suliven , I miss read you all along. You really are multi-disciplined

 

He has quite the conglomerate of knowledge, it quite comendite-able.

 

Not another one, I get the feeling ,there is a ganging up ,going on. There I was trying to be serious having made a study this Wednesday, then made a painting that day, with my tongue in cheek, about real serious Omani Ophiolite , Imatfaal has a much better picture at his fingertips , and the real Ophiolite is no where to be seen, and I am taking the flack !

Edited March 7, 2013 by Mike Smith Cosmos

[36grit]

I am not a quack, I'm just way ahead of time LOL

[imatfaal]

Good night Gilbert o suliven , I miss read you all along. You really are multi-disciplined

 

 

Not another one, I get the feeling ,there is a ganging up ,going on. There I was trying to be serious having made a study this Wednesday, then made a painting that day, with my tongue in cheek, about real serious Omani Ophiolite , Imatfaal has a much better picture at his fingertips , and the real Ophiolite is no where to be seen, and I am taking the flack !

 

These days my relation with geology is purely plutonic; I was very interested as a younger man as I believed it was the only science where dropping acid was acceptable and when one got boulder one could write papers on measuring a dyke's cleavage. But then I realised the competition was too fierce - too many people out standing in their field.

[CaptainPanic]

A lawyer has to know what rocks look like - because rock/paper/scissors plays a much bigger role in the courtroom than most judges are willing to admit.

FTFY

 

 

On topic, I think we should sticky the original article. We have some amateur trolls and quacks that could learn from that. I love a good troll... it's the bad ones that annoy me.

[michel123456]

What is the percentage of quacks on this forum ?

How many threads from quacks?

[swansont]

What is the percentage of quacks on this forum ?

How many threads from quacks?

 

Speculations has over 3000 threads, and the trash can almost a tenth of that. So, even given some legitimate speculation that's not contrary to established science, undeleted spam, duplication, etc., I'd say a thousand quack threads — threads that agree/identify with the satire in the article — is a reasonable minimum estimate.

[michel123456]

I would expect more than one/day.

 

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I just noticed there is no external info about SFN, not even a wiki article.

Edited March 8, 2013 by michel123456

[Popcorn Sutton]

I found thay your geological puns are a bit quakey. Theres too much on my plate to let people rock my mind with watered down sediments towards an unnamed quack that burst through the crust of modern science.

[Moontanman]

Quack threads are the most fun, you knock em down and I'll stomp on em...

[Popcorn Sutton]

I'm in. There are several I got my sights on, but I don't want to get banned lol.

[Alrah]

Where does 'status quo bias' enter into this?

[swansont]

Where does 'status quo bias' enter into this?

 

It doesn't. The OP was satire about quacks.

[cladking]

Where does 'status quo bias' enter into this?

 

Generally it's taken for granite that the statues quo are founded on bedrock.

 

1130a. When thou sayest, "statues", in respect to these stones,

1130b. which are like fledglings of swallows under the river-bank;