Rick Adams wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>
> > I think Rick that the point of the initial mention of reindeer
> > was an analogy. Specifically, your stating that distance
> > education is as good as traditional education was analogous to
> > someone claiming that reindeer can fly.
>
> But the original post was _not_ a statement by me that dl is as good as
> traditional ed.
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Digging back in my Trash file I found that
this exercise in convoluted logic started with Rick's null hypothesis:
> > Many of the distance programs
> > provide just as good of educations as any traditional
> > institution.
>
To which Jim responded:
> I would be very interested in the evidence for this statement.
And Rick replied:
Just as you ask for evidence that distance learning provides as good of
an education as a traditional institution, however, I would ask that you
provide evidence that it does NOT do so.
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Which led me to remember Randi's response to the argument that, "nobody has
demonstrated that paranormal phenomena do not occur."
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