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That's my point. It's not science.

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Neither is love-making. So what?


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Well - we dont divert scientific funding to love-making.

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We don't divert sceintific funding to SETI either. For the brief time that SETI was publicly funded, it was through NASA, wasn't it? Well, NASA isn't science, either. So the funding for SETI wasn't scientific funding. Like I said, so what?

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The point is not that SETI has no place, it's just not science. For what it's worth I dont think love-making is science either but that doesnt seem relevant to the original post.

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The point is that lots of worthwhile things aren't science.

I'm not saying that SETI is worthwhile. But the fact that it isn't science is not much of an argument that it isn't worthwhile.

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It's saying "Hey this would be cool if we found it, though we have no good reason to believe we will...let's go look"

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And?

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And - this is not a good reason to spend millions of dollars, anymore than a few homeopaths telling me they have noticed good results is a good reason to invest millions on producing "medicinal" water.

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Who said it was?

The obvious difference, though, is that homeopathy can be falsified for $10, so there's no need to spend millions.