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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Peter shows his ignorance, once again.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.010745.13877@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 01:07:45 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.724963465@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >I was going to add "Was: Loren...dictator" but these subject lines tend to
- >get squashed in the middle on my "index" [better term: table of contents],
- >rendering them unintelligible.
- >
- >Part 1 was not lableled as such, it's the thread where I took Mark to task for
- >claiming that informed consent prior to abortions is a requirement, quoting
- >from Chief Justice Burger, dissenting, in *Thornburgh*. At the time I was
- >not yet ready to accuse Mark of being a master of the Big Lie technique,
- >but now I am. The biggest piece of evidence will come in Part 3, coming
- >your way soon.
- >
- >In <1992Dec17.180016.6709@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>In article <16DEC92.21143872@vax.clarku.edu> lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>>In a previous article, margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) wrote:
- >>>>In <16DEC92.07023222@vax.clarku.edu> lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>>>>In a previous article, chall@eco.twg.com (Charles Don Hall) wrote:
- >>>>>>In <14DEC92.21004172@vax.clarku.edu> lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>>An unfertalized egg, on it's own, left in it's environment, will not grow into
- >>>>>>>a human adult. A fertalized egg will.
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>Well, let's see...
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>An unfertilized egg has a few different environments. It starts its
- >>>>>>life in the ovaries, and later migrates through the fallopian tubes
- >>>>>>and into the uterus. Now, the interesting thing about the uterus
- >>>>>>is that it sometimes has sperm cells in it. Therefore, an unfertilized
- >>>>>>egg, on its own, left in its environment, can in fact grow into a
- >>>>>>human adult. It's not 100% certain, but it isn't 100% certain that
- >>>>>>a given fetus will survive to adulthood either.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>That is why I specified the difference between a fertalized egg, and an
- >>>>>unfertalized one. An unfertalized egg will neververrow into a human adult.
- >>>>>It may become fertalized, but then it wouldn't be unfertalized.
- >
- >Larry Margolis tells the truth below: he does hate to clue Loren
- >in; so, rather than cluing him in, he regales us with his own brand
- >of pseudoscience. [Note in particular his substitution of "become" for
- >"grow into." Larry is a master of equivocation and subtle terminology
- >shifts.]
- >
- >>>>I hate to clue you in, but by the same reasoning a fertilized egg will
- >>>>never develop into an adult, either. It might become an embryo, but then
- >>>>it wouldn't be a fertilized egg any more...
- >
- >Refusing to get sidetracked from "grow", Loren replies:
- >
- >>>Except the fertalized egg will grow into an embryo...adult. There is a
- >>>difference between growing into something (fertalized egg -> Embryo), and
- >>>being changed into something by outside forces (unfertalized egg -> fertalized
- >>>egg)
- >
- >>*SIGH*
- >
- >Here it comes. Note the masterly misdirection below. Mark makes it look
- >like he is rehabilitating Larry Margolis's pseudoscience, but if you
- >read what he says carefully, Larry remains refuted.
- >
- >>Loren, have you ever taken a biology course? Do you know *anything*
- >>about the biology of reproduction?
- >
- >Of course he does, he was just using the word "will" in somewhat
- >nonstandard fashion, as in "the sun will rise tomorrow", which to be
- >correct should read, "We will see something tomorrow that is conventionally
- >referred to as the rising of the sun, even though it is an illusion due
- >to the rotation of the earth, unless we are late in getting up, or it is
- >cloudy, or..."
- >
- Except, of course, that the odds of the sun rising are roughly 100%,
- while the odds of a fertilized egg actually implanting and developing
- into a real person are no where near that high.
-
- >>You statement above, in order to be correct, should read:
- >>"Except the fertalized egg [your spelling. I'll be happy if you get
- >>the biology correct. Somebody else can undertake to teach you to
- >>spell] may, under circumstances which occur for perhaps one out of
- >>three fertilized [correct spelling, since it's my word this time...]
- >>egg, implant,
- >
- >Source, please, for the "one out of three" statistic.
- >
- Any text on obstetrics. Pick one, any one, and read it.
-
- >> and begin the process by which it may (again, against
- >>the odds) eventually become an embryo, a fetus,
- >
- >Source, please, for "against the odds". I've seen this kind of talk
- >bandied about for months in talk.abortion, all without a scrap of
- >documentation.
- >
- Any text on obstetrics. Pick one, any one, and read it.
-
- >> and (potentially and
- >>eventually) a child."
- >
- >What does the word "potentially" mean in this context?
- >
- It means, quite obviously, that the z/e/f is only potentially a
- child. I would have thought even your meager comprehension capable of
- figuring that one out...
-
- >And why do I not see flames against Larry for his pseudoscience,
- >nor Charles Don Hall for his gross understatement in re "not 100%"?
- >
- >Could it be because Cochran does not give a hoot about correct
- >information (despite his words below) and is only interested in
- >seeing the pro-choice/pro-abortion/pro-abortionist faction win
- >debates?
- >
- Since you are disputing my facts, care to post your medical
- credentials? Or at least, post a source that contradicts me?
- I doubt it...
-
- >>Does anyone remember if Loren has ever posted an article which
- >>contained any correct information?
- >
- >>--
- >> Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- >>These are the views of my employer. They also represent the views of
- >>your employer, your government, the Church of your choice, and the
- >>Ghost of Elvis. So there.
- > ^^^^^^^^
- >He knows how to pout, too. I thought at first he was Keith Cochran's
- >kid brother because of this. Turns out it's the other way around.
- >
- Oh how cute. Little Petey Ny is trying his hand at .sig flames.
- Keep trying little boy. Maybe someday you'll be ready for the big
- leagues.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer. They also represent the views of
- your employer, your government, the Church of your choice, and the
- Ghost of Elvis. So there.
-