Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"

/\/\ (raven@kaiwan.com)
24 Nov 1996 11:18:12 -0800

In article <56s6c7$7h5@news.ptd.net>, edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad) wrote:
>ndrosen@bu.edu (Nicholas Rosen) wrote:
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>>Ed Conrad (edconrad@prolog.net) wrote:
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>>: 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."

>

>>Bluff of omniscience? Science? Not so, sir. There may be scientists

>>guilty of arrogance, but science does not pretend to omniscience . . .

>

>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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