[LINK] more wikipedia strangeness

[Sam Stainsby]

Deus Ex Machina wrote:

>so now you are saying the whole of scientific progress is bunk. 
>
>lets not bother with any models or maps because they are not the
>territory. sure why not, lets wind back a couple of thousand years 
>of progress and we can all just go tripping in forest raves for ever.
>
>silly me, how obvious, people who eschew science clearly have a more
>enlightened viewpoint. who needs maps and models when you know
>everyting already?
>
>Vic
>  
>
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html:
"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a 
person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or 
misrepresented version of that position."

Well I think this thread ends here for me. You keep setting up those 
glib strawman arguments like "so now you are saying the whole of 
scientific progress is bunk" or "ability has a normal ditribution" 
[sic]. I can only assume that you are simply trolling for an ever 
divergent argument in some vain hope that you can 'win' something 
somewhere. What a shame we don't have a rating system on this forum or 
this might have ended much earlier :-)

I've never been to a forest rave personally, but I do have a PhD in 
particle physics. I'll leave you to your one-dimensional world of 
mathematical curves and go back to the real world.