The arrogance factor is the part that's the most difficult part to understand and it's the hardest part to deal with. You'd think they'd show a bit more humility as it relates to alternative cosmology ideas considering the fact that the mainstream requires 95 percent supernatural ad-hoc gap filler to get their ideas to work right, and at least half the time that there's a new observation, they're always "surprised" by the results. But *NOOOOOOOO*...........kell1990 wrote:I've followed this thread since its inception, and one of the things that has become abundantly clear is that the--dare I say it--the "standard model"-- is what the researchers now think is the truth of this matter. It is their way or the highway. Just read some of the overbearing rhetoric from some of them and you'll quickly see that this is the case. "higgsy" is a perfect case in point. (probably a newly-minted PhD, and thus knows everything there is to know about his subject...)
Brian Koberlein is a perfect embodiment of that pure arrogance in action. Koberlein doesn't even correctly understand the EU/PC ideas that he's bashing on, and/or he has no concept of ethics, one or the other. There is no solar model in EU/PC theory that predicts "no neutrinos" as Koberlein erroneously claimed. That utterly false claim however is the very first criticism that he makes about Thornhill's solar model and Koberlein simply banned all four individuals who pointed out his unprofessional error.
This LIGO scenario is another perfect example of their complete arrogance in action. They arrogantly insist (at 5+ sigma) that two hypothetical invisible entities "merged together" at some great distance from Earth to form another invisible hypothetical entity, which miraculously emits multiple solar masses of energy in the form of invisible hypothetical waves which can only be detected by LIGO equipment, without emitting significant amounts of EM radiation.
They simply cheated in their methodology by giving their own claims a free pass, in stark contrast to every other potential cause of the same signals which were required to pass a process of elimination routine. Worse yet, they expect everyone else on the planet to "disprove" their claims as to cause while literally providing *zero* empirical evidence to support their claim.
In spite of hundreds of man hours spent trying to verify their claims externally to LIGO gear, there were no celestial events observed which might explain a single one of these three signals. There's not even a category for 'unknown cause' in their oversimplified and flawed methodology.
The whole thing is pure arrogance on a stick, and woe to anyone who dares to point out the *numerous* flaws in their methodology. They use any excuse to launch themselves into a personal attack tirade rather than to deal with the criticisms. Selfsim's entire approach in terms of debating this topic at CF was to attack the individual, and the amusing part is that it completely blew up in his face.