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- From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
- Subject: Re: In defense of crackpots ( was Re: Repost of Truzzi Lecture:)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.180056.3827@aoa.aoa.utc.com>
- Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
- References: <1hk78vINN34t@gap.caltech.edu> <C03HC5.98n@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> <6774@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:00:56 GMT
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- (sorry, I can't post to alt.sci. .... If someone would care to
- transpost this...)
- Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
- In article <6774@tuegate.tue.nl> wsadjw@urc.tue.nl writes:
- >1) My ideas are unconventional, so you laugh at them;
- >2) But unconventionality, even apparently ridiculous, is no counterproof;
- >3) The example of XXX shows that the implication "ridiculous -> wrong"
- > doesn't hold.
- >4) Therefore your observation that it's ridiculous is not sufficient to
- > prove me wrong.
- x
- As is regularly pointed out in sci.med, #4 is not relevant to scientific
- findings. It's your job to prove validity, not our job to
- disprove it. (Although a quick counterexample can often save everyone
- a lot of trouble :=) )
- In fact, many but not all posters do follow "it's ridiculous" with some
- obvious examples of contradictory results from the "ideas."
-
-
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