Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Blaming RT /Russia for the riots in Southport" video.

  1. I'm sorry, but if you actually understood the scientific method, you would realise that this statement doesn't reflect it in full. The scientific method relies on proof - not hearsay - but tested hypotheses. Common sense relies on allegedly tested hypothesis, and probabilities to boot. The scientific method therefore has no truck with rumours, hearsay, or gossip. It relies on testing hypotheses. Those that fail are not true. And even what more ironic you citing some unknown sage, is that science has identified what you are doing as confirmation bias and a call to authority - both are logical fallacies. You are trying to bolster your opinion, instead of keeping to the known facts. But if you did keep to the known facts, you would have so much to say, would you? Perhaps if we all kept to the known facts, and stayed away from assumptions, the people of Southport might not feel it necessary to say certain public figures are not welcome to visit them. Using the facts you have, when they are untested and invalidated is folly. The universe can be more defined by what we don't know rather than what we do. Why? The very way our brains evolved. We have the same brain as our early ancestors, but the world is no longer full of sabre-toothed tigers, but the eldest parts of our brain don't deal with intellect or analysis. They deal with fear and desire. These helped us evade the sabre-toothed tigers, but when faced with a world full of data, and the lack of knowledge and sometimes wisdom, to sift the dross from the gold. That's why the professor argues that we need to be trained to use social media and the Internet from an early age. And he's right. The guys making a living using the Internet know how it can be abused, and the search engines unwittingly programmed to mislead. So no, one cannot blithely use the facts one has got if you don't know that they are actually facts. You have to prove what they assert is true or discard them. Why? It's very easy to provoke people into violence, especially if they have been primed by exposure to content that stimulates the fear and desire centres of their brain. And people are making money just doing that. So, unless you know for sure what is true, you stop and check your facts. And that means not relying solely on social media, or sany random on the Internet. But the temptation was too great for those thugs in Southport. I'm sure they thought they were heroes, but they're not. The only good thing to come from their actions is that the people of Southport, of all creeds are united more than ever before against those people who hijacked their time of mourning. There's Christians and Muslims helping each other, and working together to clear up and repair the damage. And I say, that's the real England right there.
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