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- From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
- Subject: Re: RFD: sci.physics.research moderated
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.084346.23698@sei.cmu.edu>
- Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
- Organization: Software Engineering Institute
- References: <1gqqqjINN9ii@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:43:46 EST
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- In article <1gqqqjINN9ii@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> fxt@helios.ucsc.edu (oxide owner) writes:
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- >yep. just enough knife's edge to stop the abian's, the hannu's, the snarfy's,
- >the dale versus blair (for example) flame fests, the mega group cross posters,
- >the verbage denoted to the relationship of religion and physics, and the qm
- >and/or sr paradox specialists.
-
- For what it's worth, I vote no. Even with all the above, I'd rather just
- keep hitting the 'n' key.
-
- What's fringe and what isn't? For example, on the QM stuff I think Mr
- Budnik is as wrong as Mr Abian, and he probably thinks the same about
- me. But it does us good to have our views seriously challenged from
- time to time, from no matter what perspective. In my view, there's
- already too much smug orthodoxy in this group; if dissent - even crank
- dissent - is stifled, it will just get more smug and very boring.
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