Journal Tau Zero's Journal: Slashdot editors: science-illiterate or just stupid? 5
Whenever I see something like this, I always have to shake my head and wonder where people went to school.
Conservation of energy is a foundation concept in most of science. You literally cannot understand anything significant in physics or chemistry without taking it into account throughout. Yet there goes CowboyNeal, blithely posting an article which implicitly claims that a lossy microwave generator can create energy from nothing.
Science-illiterate I can believe, but Slashdot shouldn't be giving science editor duties to anyone like that. Stupid or credulous, I am a little less ready to believe... though I am willing to be convinced.
The thing that worries me most, though, is that someone's paying editors under the table to get publicity for their hokey products. If that's where Slashdot is going, it either needs to fire the editors or die.
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How optimistic of you (-:
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This means that people who could have solved problems had they a decent understanding, instead spin their mental wheels. When I think of all the wasted potential and the amount of misery implied by the problems left to fester, I want to cry.
And it's all because peo
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Doh...
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Lots of people might not know that, but they aren't editting science material. Don't you think we ought to expect more o