Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-27 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Dr. Ferdinando dos ReisFalcão wrote on Goanet: To him, even Einstein of the 18th century maybe considered as a cretin, and all Goan fools. Folks, Facts are indisputable. Einstein did not live in the 18th century. Not one, but two people pointed this out to Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
In this post I would like to correct all the blunders made by Ferdinando in his latest post appended below with respect to fair use of copyrighted material, publication in scientific journals, appearance of published medical scientific articles in the pubmed/medline databases, the difference

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-27 Thread J. Colaco jc
[1] Dr. Ferdinando dos ReisFalcão wrote: In almost all hospitals that I worked in, even at GMC during my student days; the peons, attendants and even some nurses who’ve had some years of experience presumed they knew more than the doctor to advise patients. Their qualifications? Been working in

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-27 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:17:42 -0800, Santosh Helekar wrote : In this post I would like to correct all the blunders made by Ferdinando in his latest post appended below with respect to fair use of copyrighted material,…. COMMENT : Those are all Santosh’s interpretation of what is clearly

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-26 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:43:23 -0800, Santosh Helekar Wrote: 1- This is garbage. Here is a description of the U.S. copyright law (which is applicable to me): …. 2- I have already mentioned what is stated in the Linoli paper, and provided my interpretation in the following Goanet post:.…

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking too

2011-02-26 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Ivo wrote: I am reading only the Report of Dr.O.Linoli, which has been confirmed for years by other scientists. I read his conclusions in Italian. Fr.Ivo, 1) Can you explain to us the importance of reading the conclusions in Italian? Santosh does not even know the difference between

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-26 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
On Fri Feb 25 16:25:59 PST 2011, Mervyn Lobo mervynalobo at yahoo.ca Wrote: 1Most people on Goanet are aware that Santosh' scientific work is held in high regard by his fellow scientist. In fact, his contribution to science has been widely reported in the media at the local, state and

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: http://www.psrast.org/mobileng/mobilstarteng.htm#junk You are a shame to the science profession. Quite predictably, Ferdinando has now started abusing me again, and providing links to crackpot

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-25 Thread Ivo
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: You are a shame to the science profession. **Santosh should know that we do not give any importance to his interpretation of the scientific phenomenon that has taken

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-25 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Dr. Ferdinando dos ReisFalcão wrote: Santosh has delusions that he has much better knowledge than eminent scientist of the 1970s. To him, even Einstein of the 18th century maybe considered as a cretin, and all Goan fools. Stop looking in the mirror Santosh and drawing conclusions. You have

[Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-24 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:49:47 -0800, Santosh Helekar chimbelcho at yahoo.com wrote : ……. 1- I do not want to upload the scanned paper in the public domain and provide a link to it for copyright reasons. 2- As far as the paper is concerned, the claim below that it was removed by

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-22 Thread Ivo
From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca Fr.Ivo wrote: **This is totally wrong. All factors converge to that conclusion and show that their conclusion is correct. It is AB group. It has 23 chromosomes, what could happen only in the case of Jesus, who was conceived virginally by his Mother, Virgin

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-22 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Ivo wrote: Already at that time,scientists were saying that the tests were not conclusive because of the piece of cloth examined, which was different from the main body cloth. That was coming from a repair in the medieval time. Fr. Ivo, This is so easy to understand! 1) The church

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-21 Thread Ivo
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com I would like to correct the mistakes and false statements made in the post appended below. Goanet does not allow attachments. I do not want to upload the scanned paper in the public domain and provide a link to it for copyright reasons. I have

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-21 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Ivo wrote: **This is totally wrong. All factors converge to that conclusion and show that their conclusion is correct. It is AB group. It has 23 chromosomes, what could happen only in the case of Jesus, who was conceived virginally by his Mother, Virgin Mary. It is a scientific confirmation. We

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-21 Thread Bosco D
-Original Message- From: Mervyn Lobo Perhaps you are not aware of this but science has confirmed that the Shroud of Turin is material manufactured some time between 1260 and 1390 AD. RESPONSE: I too was of the opinion that the issue of the genesis of the Shroud of Turin was settled

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Mervyn, I try to stick to sharing factual information with people who are, or want to be, scientifically literate. The rest are free to believe whatever they want to believe. I have already explained why the combined claims of AB blood group and half the number of chromosomes, namely 23,

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
I would like to correct the mistakes and false statements made in the post appended below. Goanet does not allow attachments. I do not want to upload the scanned paper in the public domain and provide a link to it for copyright reasons. I have emailed the paper to Ferdinando. My email has not

[Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
I have already explained why the claims involving the AB blood type and haploid karyotype (one set of 23 chromosomes) in a human being do not pass the laugh test in science. I am happy that other Goanetters, including Albert appear to have understood the basic scientific explanations provided