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This thread will probably get deleted, but I will give it a shot: I created a thread yesterday about scientific consensus not always being equivalent to scientific truth. Out of the blue, A mentor just told me that it was a train wreck and that I was incorrect about the challenger shuttle disaster, which she was correct about. I don't think my thread should have been deleted because of that one error I made; To my credit, Challenger shuttle disaster was still susceptible to the "groupthink" mentality, one of the main premises of my topic , because engineers should have better conveyed the flaws in the construction of the Challengers to the committee who would make the decision of launching the challenger into space. Many of the posters liked the topic and I think I've posted other links where I showed reputable scientists disagree with a theory even though it has been subjected many experiments and proven correct ; There were a number of reputable german scientists who opposed einstein's theory of special relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik)
I want to make a request to all PF -mentors: IF you suspect one of the PF users have created a thread about a topic not back by evidence or their are no links to back their main premises, or they just created a thread where they made one tiny error, please don't just say how crappy their thread is or that they created a crackpot thread; I think it is counterproductive to the thread starter not to give their constructive criticism of why they have deleted a thread;
I want to make a request to all PF -mentors: IF you suspect one of the PF users have created a thread about a topic not back by evidence or their are no links to back their main premises, or they just created a thread where they made one tiny error, please don't just say how crappy their thread is or that they created a crackpot thread; I think it is counterproductive to the thread starter not to give their constructive criticism of why they have deleted a thread;