Past, Present and Future

[--Pete]

Hi,

If you were taught that "how" to think was to hypothesize fancifully, unfettered by the evidence, then all I can say is, I'm glad that higher education runs in a rather different direction.

No. Of course not. Did I say that? No, I did not.

But one can infer that from what you do say. Indeed, even more than that, for you espouse concepts when all reliable evidence points to their falsehood. In the circles I've usually frequented, what you have is often referred to as a broken BS detector. That may not be all bad, there may have been cases where actual verifiable theories came from outside the mainstream fields of study, although I cannot think of any such cases offhand. But if many competent people waste their time pursuing crackpot theories, then it is a double loss, for their potential contribution to something useful is lost too.

--Pete