Mantis emotions

[AFK]

I completely agree with what AFK says; experiments are needed to give any credibility to this theory. HOWEVER, there needs to be experiments to DISPROVE that mantids have any emotions. So I'm sorry, but dismissing a theory without prove is also bad science :wink:

Rob.

Incorrect. Disproving that mantids have emotions is *NOT* the affirmative.That's like saying that dismissing the theory that I have an invisible cat on my sofa at the moment is bad science. No, actually, it is GOOD SCIENCE. How do I disprove that I don't have an invisible cat on my sofa? Not only you really can't, but it's SILLY to place the burden on the non-affirmative.

Make sure you really 100% understand this fundamental discipline of the relationship between the affirmative and burden of proof before speaking about it.

 

[Rob Byatt]

You can't compare this to an invisible cat; that is a completely different subject. Not all scientific experiments give the results we want, but a negative result is still a good one.

I am not making a comment on whether or not mantids do have emotions, just mearly on what you are calling good scientific practice.

Can I ask, to what level of academia are you qualified to make these statements ?

I remember some posts by yourself a while ago that said you were an expert on invertebrates.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Ian]

Lets keep this calm peoples...

 

[skinnylegs]

note to ian & rick:i think one of you should delete this before death-threats start flying around :wink:

 

[Rick]

Game Over