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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.214942.11095@galois.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul25.174836.4853@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul25.180106.5023@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul25.183038.5345@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 21:49:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.183038.5345@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul25.180106.5023@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >
- >> Gee, Greg. Once again you insist on implying that these
- >> objections have been *successfully* addressed rather than
- >> making the arguments yourself. Is this simply laziness, or
- >> is it a realization that the counterarguments are weak?
- >
- >I'm sorry Dale, but I don't claim to be an expert on hydrogen storage
- >in metal lattices. I'm just pointing out references in the literature.
- >That's how science gets done, you know, by publishing in the
- >literature, not by arguing on Usenet. If you think that reading the
- >literature is laziness, then I can't help you.
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- Dale was not implying that science gets done on usenet; it quite
- obviously doesn't. Nonetheless it is a tradition on usenet to back up
- ones statements when it is requested to do so. This is crucial because
- all usenet is is a bunch of invisible people chatting, many of whom have
- never heard of each other, so that argument by authority is worthless.
- If one knows articles that say X, but are not in a position to argue for
- X oneself, it's best not to assert "X" but simply to say "I read X in
- such-and-such place but I am not competent to evaluate this article."
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