Alby_da_Wolf on 15 September 2008
| FishyJoe said: The thing I hate seeing is that certain people make tons of predictions. They use it to stroke their own ego. Some of the predictions wind up being right and they beat us over the head with it. When they're wrong they never admit it and even when confronted with it, they choose to ignore it. |
How ingenuous! That's an old trick used by oil and tobacco multinationals too: they commission tons of researches, statistically there will be some with results favourable to their interests even if science already demonstrated the opposite, they keep only good (for them) results and ditch the others. One think tank famous for these so called studies is AdTI, famous for trying to demonstrate that linux was copied from minix (debunked by Tanenbaum himself), but they did also a research to demonstrate that passive smoking is harmless, for example.
