Quoting Lavolta Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
*snippage*
People who don't want to expose themselves to any attack, attach
themselves to someone whose social status currently proves their
theories to be "correct," rather than thinking for themselves. So it
becomes an issues of "My clique says" versus "your clique says."
This routine is totally different from real scientific discussion.
ROTFL! Not necessarily. I can't tell you how many scientific
"discussions" (aka arguments) that I've witnessed that are of just that
very type. "My data is better than your data;" "Your model is wrong;"
"this group [of researchers -- and They Know Best] says reality is
*this* ergo it must be." yadda-yadda, ad nauseum.
Susan
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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