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Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"
Carl J Lydick (carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU)
30 Apr 1995 02:59:38 GMT
In article <556@landmark.iinet.net.au>, gil@landmark.iinet.net.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
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=In article <D7nr44.AGA@crash.cts.com>, Robert Roosen (roosen@crash.cts.com) writes:
=>Carl,
=> Go to the library and look up Trophim Lysenko. The success of a
=>theory depends in part on its political popularity, as an entire
=>generation of Russian geneticists learned to their dismay.
=> Lysenkoism used to be a commonly used term in science--before it
=>became a standard technique of the "political" scientists who are
=>presently setting most public funding policies.
=>Robert
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=You don't honestly expect Lyddick or Scott or any of the others to
=swallow such a tale, do you?
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=Such "political" scientists (cf "political scientists", both here in
=Australia simply "bureaucrats") such as they would hardly be expected
=to concede policy here in public, would they?
Ah, I see! Gil has made the mistaken assumption that the physical sciences are
conducted the way he approaches anthropology.
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