Re: pseudoscience and fossils
Scott H Mullins (smullins@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu)
16 Jan 1995 18:09:29 GMT
In article <3f7jme$e6r@rebecca.albany.edu> pn8886@csc.albany.edu (Phil Nicholls) writes:
>In article <3f6g2b$97l@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
>Scott H Mullins <smullins@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
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>There is actually very little mud-slinging on this newsgroup,
>to the point that bringing it up when it slips out makes it
>worse. Unless you are personally wronged it is best to let
>the offended person respond.
I am justly chided for not being adequately familiar with
the newsgroup to which I posted. Consider me chastened.
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>>I agree that there could be an element of politics involved
>>in the support for the aah.
>I'm not talking about politics at all. I am talking about
>ingrained notions about nature vs nuture.
That is the particular "politics" to which I was referring.
Such notions, IMO, become ingrained through a particular
view of the way the world "is". I was not clear in my comments.
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Scott
smullins@ecn.purdue.edu
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