I can’t imagine that some driving training/education wouldn’t be an improvement over throwing kids the keys and telling them to figure it out. If anything, the linked article makes a case against loosely regulated, for-profit schools in general. It acknowledges that “some (driving) schools are awful and some are excellent”.
For centuries the received wisdom among classical musicians was that Stradivarius violins and those made by other Italians at the time were vastly superior to anything made since. A great deal of ink has been spilled and oxygen has been breathed writing and discussing the reasons for their vast superiority. Two very well designed studies in PNAS (Study 1 and Study 2) have pretty unequivocally challenged that view, and demonstrated that expert violinists actually prefer modern instruments in blind playing tests. These studies do a really good job at simulating the way a violinist would evaluate an instrument.
(There is a current thread in Cafe Society if one wants to read more.)
D18 that’s more mythbusting than what the OP is looking for. For a good OP example see Xema’s post on Bretz above.
Who’s deciding what’s right and wrong is this case? Your tone makes clear your general religious disbelief, but can you prove you’re any more right than, say, Billy Graham?
^Sorry - forgot to add - I’m pretty sure that the majority of classical musicians would cling to the view that the Strads et al. are superior.
The current Egyptian chronology is the “conventional” one. It’s been around a long time, people use it all the time, etc. But it has significant serious holes in it. Many Egyptologists know about its problems and generally feel that it should be significantly revised … someday. But it would be a big PITA to do so and a lot of nasty arguments would ensue about how to revise it. Throw in the Velikovsky nut jobs on the fringe of it and it’s just easier to let it be.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have for a long time been ascribed to the Essenes. But that was just the opinion of one very powerful, stubborn guy years ago who was really bad at archeology. They almost certainly weren’t written by the Essenes. The bulk of Dead Sea Scroll experts are finally coming around to questioning the traditional authorship, and in a few decades the Essenes thing will be considered ridiculous.
I’m sure it’s difficult to avoid snarking about religion, but you’re wrong on this issue. An ethical assertion like “In Christian thought, theft is morally wrong” or a historical claim like “the Q source has some practical flaws”, is not dependent on the validity of the religion in question.
Exactly. I suggest that if someone thinks he has an example, he should publish his results in a peer reviewed journal and start shopping for a tux to wear when he gets his invitation to Sweden to accept his Nobel Prize (or whatever equivalent there is for his field).
It’s a bit off the beaten path to get there, so allow time for it. There is a campground there that sits near the end of the canyon, where there is a large man-made recreational lake resulting from the damming just past the Snake/Palouse river confluence. There is a YouTube video of some crazy dude kayaking off the top of the falls.
There appears to be some debate about the effectiveness of criminal profiling.
There have been challenges to the methods of fire investigation:
As has been discussed in another SDMB thread, this has lead to questions about a man being executed for a murder which some say didn’t happened:
If you become an expert in homeopathy, you will learn that it is nonsense.
Actually, yes I can. But proof is irrelevant to some people.
But what’s lacking is the rigorous thought behind the assertion. Why is theft wrong? And is it always wrong, in every circumstance? We need more than ethics designed for a 3-year-old.
Another one along these lines are polygraphs. They were used extensively by criminal justice experts like detectives and judges long after the underlying science was largely discredited. Some departments still use them even though they’re no longer admissible in court.
More generally, one thing you hear from groups that work to get wrongly-convicted people free is that the vast majority of police detectives are utterly convinced they can spot a liar simply based on body language and eye contact and such. Scientific studies along these lines have shown this simply isn’t true. Of course, most suspects detectives talk to are in fact lying, but other times the combination of circumstantial evidence and a detective convinced by his supernatural internal lie detector that a person is lying can be enough to land them in in prison.
On the other hand, polygraphs don’t need to be effective in order to be effective. Nowadays, they’re most often used to convince a suspect to confess, and for that, all that’s necessary is for the suspect to think they work.
From the field of classical music:
- That you should always play a trill where there’s one written, and never play one when there’s none written.
- That there was no crescendo and diminuendo in baroque music, nor any accelerando and ritardando.
- That the triad G-C-E (from bottom to top; when the key is C major) is a C major chord. In truth, it’s almost always a G major chord with a suspended 6th and 4th.
- That Bach’s famous Minuet in G was written by Bach. It was actually written by Christian Petzold.
- That Mozart ever wrote a piece named “Turkish March”. It’s actually called “Rondo alla Turca”. Incidentally, Beethoven did write a “Turkish March”.
- That you can do a vibrato on a piano. Many Russian pianists have been brainwashed into believing this.
- That minuets are to be played in a slow tempo.
- That it’s a bad thing to analyse music, because it somehow destroys the soul of the piece. :smack:
Frankly, it’s not classical music that’s to blame. It’s classical music education, where you don’t learn to think for yourself until you’ve proved you can emulate your teachers at a very high level.
It’s ridiculous to claim that Christian philosophy and ethics, a domain of rational inquiry thousands of years old, is “designed for a 3-year old”. Considering that the field in question has addressed all of your questions, often at length, I think your juvenile assertion says more about your preconceived beliefs towards Christianity and lack of knowledge thereof than anything else.
Who is perhaps more famous for his Guten Tag concerto, originally a long if rather trivial piece, now much shorter for having been rescored in C#.