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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Here's an example of the stupid shit that gets research funding while the obvious avenues go unexplored.
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Because a doctor will not hear the difference, then we should remain ignorant. You are confusing fundamental research with application research. Fundamental research only determines relationships, facts, and concepts. Makes no effort to make any of it useful. That is why the laser, transistors, satellites, and Unix were developed. Nobody had a clue what practical applications these would eventually have.
Application research later takes that new knowledge to ring something useful from it. The minute one combines application and fundamental together in a conclusion, as you have done (ie "How do you train every pediatrician in the country to discern the auditory difference?"), then research is stifled.
Shameful are the so many who 'know' what causes autism only because they ‘feel’. The same "I love to screw the world" logic that also proved Saddam's WMDs. We are supposed to have learned from that history how to think logically. Blaming autism on vaccines has been demonstrated to be from the same mindset that proved Saddam's WMDs: "I feel, therefore it must be true."
Electricity leaking from electrical receptacles also causes arthritis. Same logic that so many believed 100 years ago - therefore it was true.
Electricity also causes childhood leukemia. Also proven by the same hearsay.