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- From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin)
- Subject: Re: God & Science
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.120509.2383@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
- References: <ripng.1.722008660@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 12:05:09 GMT
- Lines: 39
-
- In article <ripng.1.722008660@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au>,
- ripng@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (PAUL NG) writes:
-
- > What I'm trying to say is this: Suppression of ideas subsequently proven
- > correct has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION AND CERTAINLY NOTHING TO
- > DO WITH CHRISTIANITY OR THE CHURCH. The Church was just doing its job as an
- > important element of government. It tried to carry out its function as a
- > "filter" as best as it could, just like modern scientists function today as
- > checks on their colleagues' competency, via peer review.
-
- Oh, wow, wow. This is just an _incredibly_ brilliant simile. I
- _love_ it!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- How about this one:
-
- From: The Journal of <insert discipline here>
-
- Dear Doctor Frumplenitz:
-
- We're sorry, but the panel who reviewed your paper `Some
- Notes on Applied Queegles' have decided that your statistical
- analysis was not sound.
-
- Accordingly, you are to be burnt at the stake at dawn, on
- Friday, June 2, in Stockholm. Please present yourself
- promptly for this appointment.
-
- Yours very sincerely.
-
- Look, Paul, it may have escaped you that the peer review process doesn't
- involve any killing. Or indeed any suppression -- the author is always
- free to publish elsewhere.
-
- Sigh.
-
- --
- John Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>
- Knox's box is a 286. Fox in Socks does hacks and tricks
- Knox's box is hard to fix. To fix poor Knox's box for kicks.
-