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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: "Urgent warning"
- Message-ID: <727839863snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 01:44:23 GMT
- References: <149180262@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <149180262@hpindda.cup.hp.com> alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com writes:
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- > A Nobel laureate in solid state physics likely has a much better
- > understanding of how science works than does the average layman
- > -- or engineer. They are much less likely to dismiss the work of
- > colleagues in fields other than their own out of political motives
- > than are the latter (particulary engineers, whose main difference
- > from intelligent laymen is that they *think* they understand science,
- > while the laymen know they do not).
- >
- > Consequently when climatologists, atmospheric chemists, and population
- > biologists sound warnings, they are apt to recognize them as serious.
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- Please substantiate with evidence, McGowen. Even some comparison among
- college students for their comprehension, intelligence, and ability to
- reason, before going on further to specialise respectively in solid
- state physics or engineering, would be useful.
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- Else you need to explain what there is about solid state physics that
- makes a person so brainy that nobody else's opinion needs to be taken
- into account, or what there is about engineering that apparently makes
- them so stupid.
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- While I think about it, what makes *you* so brainy? Are you a graduate
- in solid state physics yourself, or something similar?
-
- Meanwhile, your own abstract models yet need to be supported with at
- least some attempt at proof, unless you are trying to make out that
- science has recently been re-invented to suit your agenda.
-
- Gil
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