Monday, March 8, 2010

Sharing our ignorance...


I liked this xkcd cartoon since so many seem to feel they are well qualified to pass judgement on the evidence for and against climate change, biological evolution, big bang cosmology, consciousness, Schrodingers cat...

I thank Nathan Campbell for bringing it to my attention.

1 comment:

  1. LOL!
    Biology suffers particularly from this. Eveyone has an opinion on evolution, for example.
    John

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