Hello,
I must admit I am new to BAUT and don't know the mechanics of the ATM forum...BUT....I do have experience of talking to LOTS of "Against the Mainstream People" for want of a better word.
PM me if you want the whole story, but suffice to say I have dropped a lot of "stuff".
Anyway, I disagree with Kelfazin. I think Frazer has it better...if a theory is really interesting then get a panel of actual practising Scientists to look at it! To turn the ATM forum into another "Peer review" system would seem to defeat the point of it. It is a forum, not a technical scientific admissions process (although there's no harm in introducing some of those concepts as I think they are widely misunderstood).
Exactly! That sounds serious.
I was on a forum where I was questioning someone and they were berating me because they thought "that I was just trying to make myself sleep better at night", by annulling their theory (it was a "Chemtrail" theory). How laden was that with accusations and counter accusations, not to mention some kind of emotional blackmail ?
This discussion reminds me of this...
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2003/08...ation_and.html
Wiki collaborative software that has been used to stop a conflict happening in Asia!
And here is my point...
I think many Scientists
underestimate the pure hostility there is against mainstream professionals from some (
SOME ) people.
I have been on the forums where some people regularly talk about and honestly believe, that NASA scientists are "airbrushing aliens out of Mars images" or whatever.
So it's an
infinite regress. When they come up against the
perceived hostility of...Scientists, it only confirms their beliefs that there is some wall of conspiracy "keeping them down".
I wonder if you looked at the techniques used by the Wiki software (see link) you could build some of that into the forum..or even use their software ?
Goodluck! Because as you say, there are some fascinating theories and ideas in that "against".
DJBarney