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- From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Calcium/Magnesium
- Message-ID: <C01zGx.AL6@wpg.com>
- Organization: WP Group
- References: <1992Dec29.232920.3510@pixel.kodak.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:38:56 GMT
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- In article <altar.725666594@sfu.ca> altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar) writes:
- twa> Instead, we are asked to take Mr. Dyer's word for it that
- twa> Professor Moon is a crank. Ok, then in that case I would like know what
- twa> Mr. Dyer's credentials are. Does he have a PhD from accredited
- twa> university? Has he any publications? Has even a graduate degree of
- twa> any kind?
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- From article <1992Dec29.232920.3510@pixel.kodak.com>, by young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young):
- ry> As I said, I believe he gave you all that in the r.f.v. exchange;
- ry> if you've subsequently forgotten, it's not Mr. Dyer's duty to
- ry> refresh your memory on demand.
- ry>
- ry> Not that it matters, of course, since truth or falsity cannot be
- ry> determined by credentials alone. After all, Nobel laureate Linus
- ry> Pauling still thinks massive doses of vitamin C can cure/prevent
- ry> the common cold.
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- Would you mind explaining how/why credentials can ever be used to
- reasonably test the truth or falsity of a statement concerning
- human nutrition? On the whole, you seem to be saying that
- credentials are admissible when you say they are, and they're not
- admissible when you say they're not. Please tell us the guidelines
- that you use for making the distinction.
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