You want to go off on tangents to stroke yourself, have a ball
My only point was my rejection of "I have degrees" types writing on subjects not within their supposed realm of experience. Like MD's going on about firearms. Their degree does not grant them superpowers.
Like "Science Guy". From what I have read, he is a mechanical engineer that never really practiced his profession, but found showmanship was a lucrative gig.
Run into too many that read up a bit on something and then want to argue about the topic as if they spent a career doing it. This guy may well have some extra-curricular training, but it is not evident from his "degrees"
I sure as heck do not know about the probability of life elsewhere, never said I knew a thing about it. You decided to try and shove that on me.
Now, go away and fight your little FR battles that I see you revel in from your posts.
You HAVE no point.
First, because this paper was accepted for publication in a respected, peer reviewed, journal, so obviously Cornell isn’t as ignorant of the applicability of the authors’ academic “chops” as you are. Just because YOU don’t know the difference between an academic publication and the National Enquirer doesn’t mean others are so benighted.
Also, you don’t KNOW what their experiences entail. Borrowing from your own witless doctor analogy, Martin Fackler was one of the most respected and published experts on wound ballistics ever, and he was a surgeon. Do you think his expertise came from studying patients in his operating room?
I sure as heck do not know about the probability of life elsewhere, never said I knew a thing about it. You decided to try and shove that on me.
That’s because you questioning the authors’ credentials to write on the subject is as vacuous as claiming men should have no say on abortion. Do you think they hand out degrees in “Alien Life” somewhere?
Besides, I already TOLD you how at least one of the author’s field of study applied, but you decided to fight over your right to express an ignorant opinion instead of refuting anything that was actually written IN THE PAPER.
Frankly, I could care less what you don’t like, if you’re going to question educated people’s published opinion, and don’t want to be challenged, make sure it’s an educated question.