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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
- Subject: Re: Calcium/Magnesium
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.095617.9424@spdcc.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 09:56:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec31.095617.9424
- References: <C03pGo.JIC@wpg.com> <1992Dec31.062428.1064@spdcc.com> <altar.725790066@sfu.ca>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- In article <altar.725790066@sfu.ca> altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar) writes:
- >Usually that "understanding" instantiated by a proven ability
- >to earn some credentials.
-
- Well, I have credentials: I have a masters degree in computer science.
- I made a choice early on that I wanted to do this; it's far more lucrative
- and equally as interesting as a career in pharmacology. But I love pharma-
- cology, too, and keep up with it constantly. I just prefer to make my
- living with computers. But I'll let my record of posting on the topic of
- pharmacology stand on its own; anyone with a PhD in pharmacology or an MD
- would be proud to have the same record.
-
- >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.
-
- Yeah, and my underwear is too tight, too. You're really scraping the
- bottom of the barrel for insults, aren't you? What an absurdity.
-
- >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,
-
- I do not parrot textbooks, unlike Ted. I've read them long ago and
- understand them. He's unaware that there's a difference there. And
- you don't need to have a publication in a scientific journal to under-
- stand a field; that would eliminate 90% of all of a journal's audience.
- Also, Ted: the field is spelled pharmacology and it's distinct from
- the practice of pharmacy.
-
- >nor has the spirit of intellectual
- >curiosity and humility rubbed off from such a parroting.
-
- Intellectual curiosity is no excuse for a weak mind. And it's hard to
- appear humble when you've got Ted acting as a foil.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
-