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Originally posted by choos
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
nixon lies.. so you dont believe him..
decisively lies.. so you believe him??
double standards much?edit on 17-6-2012 by choos because: (no reason given)
WHY waste all of our time by concentrating on personal b*s*.
WE are creating the new narrative. YOU are a crybaby.
Here they are using labyrinthitis/Meniere's in a sense interchangeably.
Abnormal sensation of movement (vertigo)
Difficulty focusing the eyes because of involuntary eye movements
Dizziness
Hearing loss in one ear
Loss of balance, such as falling toward one side
Nausea and vomiting
Ringing or other noises in the ears (tinnitus)
Drop in hearing
Pressure in the ear
Ringing or roaring in the affected ear
Vertigo
Originally posted by decisively
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
This is BULL, these clowns making all of this dough.
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Originally posted by choos
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
nixon lies.. so you dont believe him..
decisively lies.. so you believe him??
double standards much?edit on 17-6-2012 by choos because: (no reason given)
WHY waste all of our time by concentrating on personal b*s*.
WE are creating the new narrative. YOU are a crybaby.
Here's an icecream cone. Now let's get back to talking about Shepard and Apollo.
Originally posted by denver22
reply to post by DJW001
We will get ignored, as anyone who exposes his flaws is ignored ..
Time once again to bring the thread back on topic. Let Alan Shepard speak for himself.
www.c-spanvideo.org...
So it's fair to say that if you have to admit you're wrong, then you don't get your name in the history books as Doctor Patrick Fattydash Tea, the High Gain Professor of physiology, medicine, mathematics, astrodynamics, and radar repair at the Proxy University of Hear-No-Evil.
Okay hyperbole aside, that's really what you want, isn't it? This isn't about space exploration or holding powerful interests accountable. This is about making you feel important. This is about creating a fantasy world in which you are the doctor-lawyer-soldier-scientist who saves the huddled, sheepish masses from their own ignorance and foolishness, and prevails against a terrible, faceless foe that has oppressed them.
You've tapped out NASA as your foe, and you'll take any shot against it that you can: guidance, bacteriology, history, politics. You'll pretend to be any person you have to be in order to fight that foe. Except you're not really fighting it; you're fighting the caricature of it that you've created. And you're not fighting it with actual weapons, but instead with little plastic swords of your own invented or supposed expertise. You don't really know the sciences involved, so you try to reinvent them by simplifying the problems down to your level of understanding, picking and choosing what parts of them make sense to you and conform to your beliefs. This is why you fear opposition from actual qualified experts. You can only respond by evasion, and when that fails, with bluster.
The purpose of your fantasy world is to create you as the hero. So your lengthy computations and comparisons, intricate and based on nothing more than your guess for how such problems should be solved, become what you hope are the artifacts of your victory. "Look at me! Look at what I've done! Look at this masterful computation that shows I've prevailed against impossible odds!"
This payoff is real. Dr. Irving Biederman studies the neurophysical effects of believing you have uncovered a nefarious plot, or that you know or believe something others do not. There are neurochemical artifacts associated with secret-knowing and secret-keeping.
It doesn't matter to you that there are simple and foolproof observations that we can do to ascertain that the mainstream results against which you violently compute are good enough. You aren't interested in the answer, because you know the answer will pop your fantasy world like a soap bubble, and because those elaborated lines of reasoning are themselves the payoff.
In the real world a method that produces the wrong result is useless, regardless of how intricately it has been crafted or how proud its creator is of it. And you can't bear to see any of your elaborately crafted lines of reasoning written off as useless. You rely on deduction when we can obtain better results by observation. You eschew the observation so that you can wrap yourself in the warm fuzziness of a deduction you authored, even if it's misdirected and wrong.
The reason the world won't let you persist in your fantasy is because by accusing Apollo practitioners of fraud, you are affecting real people. Sorry, but your sense of well-being just isn't worth rewriting the world's history and denying skilled people their just desserts. And there really are people whose love of truth and fact is strong enough to compel them to comment when someone like you plays fast and loose with them for his own purposes. That's what I understand JREF to intend. By all means expand your self-esteem, but not at the expense of others' legitimate accomplishments.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Time once again to bring the thread back on topic. Let Alan Shepard speak for himself.
www.c-spanvideo.org...
Would you care to draw attention to something that serves your position? He actually drops a major hint or two about the etiology of his Menière's!