Re: MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL (A human skull as old as coal!)

meron@cars3.uchicago.edu
Fri, 8 Nov 1996 03:09:38 GMT

In article <55u64s$12j0@news.ccit.arizona.edu>, frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning) writes:
>In article <E0IyxI.6yG@midway.uchicago.edu> meron@cars3.uchicago.edu
>writes:
>
>> [...]
>> Anybody who has been actively involved in research knows well that for
>> any good idea there are dozens of faulty ideas, thus a strick weeding
>> process is needed.
>
>True, the number of bad ideas greatly outweighs the good ones, but
>there's a difference between strict and unreasonable with regards to
>the weeding process.
>
True. Are you trying to say that the process, as is, is unreasonable
or that some individuals may be? If it is the first, I disagree. If
the second, it is a fact of life in any human activity.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same"