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Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"/\/\ (raven@kaiwan.com)24 Nov 1996 11:18:12 -0800
>ndrosen@bu.edu (Nicholas Rosen) wrote: > >>Ed Conrad (edconrad@prolog.net) wrote: > >>: To my mind, the ONLY physical anthropologist who possessed scientific >>: integrity in a search for honest answers to legitimate questions about >>: man's origin and ancestry was the late Dr. Earnest A. Hooton, longtime >>: professor of anthropology at Harvard University . . .
>>: (who wrote these eloquent words in ~Apes, Men and Morons."):
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>>: > ``I am also convinced that science pursues
>>: > a foolish and fatal policy when it tries to keep up
>>: > its bluff of omniscience in matters of which it is sitill
>>: > woefully ignorant. Sooner or later the intelligent
>>: > public is going to call that bluff."
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>>Bluff of omniscience? Science? Not so, sir. There may be scientists
>>guilty of arrogance, but science does not pretend to omniscience . . .
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>You, sir, are certainly entitled to your opinion.
>Unfortunately, you are dead wrong.
>I'd certainly believe Dr. Hooton a helluva lot faster than
>I'd believe you.
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