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NNadir

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10. Please state for me your qualifications. Their quizzes obviate their qualifications, as does...
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 11:46 AM
Jun 2017

...what they have to say.

Their brief little tutorials about two phase flow for just one example demonstrates qualitatively that these are highly qualified highly educated people.

Nuclear Power: Two Phase Flow

In order to question the qualifications of the authors, one should have qualifications of his or her own. Regrettably, I have noticed in the last 30 years of studying nuclear energy and interacting with people who question it, is that the vast majority - not all but certainly the vast majority - of the people questioning it have no qualifications whatsoever, no familiarity with engineering, no interest or knowledge of science, nothing at all.

I would submit that anyone who is not qualified to understand the web authors qualifications is probably not worth addressing.

These fine young people are trying to educate those who are willing to be educated, but there is always a subset of people who not only refuse to be educated, but actually revel in their ignorance and lack of education..

Now, I could definitely point easily, since I am educated on nuclear issues, the total lack of qualifications of the vast numbers of people who hate nuclear energy because they know nothing at all about it. But it would be a waste of time.

This very unpleasant conversation with it's slightly CT edge - a claim that engineers must have "someone behind them" because dumb people don't agree with them - is concluded.

Welcome to my ignore list.

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