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- From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Mensas farce?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.132240.4482@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:22:40 GMT
- References: <14363@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
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- In article <14363@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes in part:
- |> we have great
- |> parties
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- Extraordinary Claims Require Exatraordianry Evidence.
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- I'm still waiting for something other than bare assertion of this claim.
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- |> Idiotic? Set an objective definition of idiotic, and I'd
- |> argue it with you any day.
- How about:
- "a bunch of supposedly extra-
- bright people who excluded 98% of the population by definition ---"
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