Guv

Do you really think every proposed idea is worth amlyzing for possible evidence in its favor?

Is there nothing you would dismiss as not worth investigating?

If you were allocating funds for research, would you really investigate every proposal?
I think I made it quite clear that "Planets in Andomeda Galaxy made of various kinds of cheese." would be dismissed without a second thought if presented by someone without any credentials.

Do considerrations of cost effectiveness ever influence you?
Yes by choosing factors such as prior scientific evidence and pedigree I hope to increase the probability that funding will not be wasted.

[/quote]If the crack pot community ever discovered some one like you was in charge of allocating research funds, the poor guy would be buried under tons of weird proposals. Hell, I would try for some of that money myself and I could come up with something more plausible than astral projection! [/quote]

On the contrary, if you base your funding on your subjective judgment, all the crackpots have to do is work out how to influence your thinking, and voila instant cash. Only here does personal opinion triumph over reason and fact, consequently you would be their favourite benefactor.

Going back quite a few posts, did you notice the areas in which I suggested that intelligent people would have differing belief systems? Like the frontiers of human knowledge and areas in which either or neither had much knowledge?
Yes I vaguely remember... What was the point again?