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- From: altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar)
- Subject: Re: Calcium/Magnesium
- Message-ID: <altar.725790066@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Dec30.210138.23118@spdcc.com> <C03pGo.JIC@wpg.com> <1992Dec31.062428.1064@spdcc.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:21:06 GMT
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- Steve Dyer proclaims:
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- >It certainly doesn't take credentials; it takes understanding and a
- >background in biology. Ted Altar is ignorant of biology, calcium
- >metabolism, nutrition and pharmacology, just for starters. He's a
- >good typist, though. Too bad transcribing textbooks bypasses the
- >brain.
-
- Usually that "understanding" instantiated by a proven ability
- to earn some credentials.
-
- Hmm, for balance let us employ Mr Dyer's bad form and observe in turn
- that churlish Mr. Dyer is ignorant of statistics, experimental
- methodology, formal logic, philosophy of science, literature,
- poetry, psychology, sociology, just for starters. He's good with
- the bombast and can recite the prosaic information from general
- textbooks on pharmocology. Too bad parroting his unnamed textbooks
- never cashed out in any degree in pharmacy or a single publication
- in any scientific journal, nor has the spirit of intellectual
- curiosity and humility rubbed off from such a parroting.
- .
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