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.
As to the specific reference I am discussing: “The abstract for the paper states that the conflict between the apparently lifeless universe that we observe and the Drake equation, ....”
No, I’m not going to read the entire paper. Let me know if you have so we can be further enlightened.
BTW I have no problem accepting the validity of a probability study showing that life elsewhere is unlikely, if indeed the study is valid. Based on current knowledge I question the likelihood of the study being an accurate reflection of actual unobserved reality.
Go hump someone else’s leg science guy, you have some serious issues I want nothing to do with. Go take your endless angst out on others, I am done with pompous fools like you.