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- From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Janus IV: Questions for Marcus, flame set to low
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.065129.11916@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:51:29 GMT
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- From article <nyikos.728073489@milo.math.scarolina.edu>,
- by nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos):
-
- [Deletia. Deletia. Deletia. Deletia. Deletia. Some more deletia.]
-
- > Not to mention the deception you engaged in where the digoxin/digitalis
- > distinction is concerned. There you said "Digoxin *is* digitalis,"
- > just so you could make an insult about my alleged lack of medical
- > knowledge, and then did not even get the distinction right on the second
- > try, and then on the third try you pretended that I was ignorant of
- > the distinction yet again. Are these the actions of an honest man?
-
- I'd say they're the actions of someone who is quick to flame. As I
- recall, Mark detected your barely-perceptible and certainly
- understandable ignorance of the pharmacology of cardiac glycosides,
- and decided to flame you for it. In the process, he oversimplified
- the issue. If he'd been trying to explain cardiac glycosides to a
- relative layperson like yourself, it would have been No Big Deal.
- Since it was a flame, he opened himself (and dozens of longsuffering,
- bleary-eyed talk.abortion readers) to incendiary retaliation, and
- now we have this tiresome thread.
-
- But I see no grounds for questioning Mark's integrity. Likewise
- for you, Peter.
-
- [60 lines will be deleted. Are you sure? Y/N/Of course]
-
- >>>>>I thought that Mark told us all his profession when he started posting
- >>>>>again. If not, he certainly dropped a lot of hints that most people
- >>>>>of average intelligence could have used to figure it out - that may
- >>>>>explain why neither PHoney, DODie, nor Lebow were capable of it.
-
- >>>>No, I never stated 'my profession is <x>'. It should have been fairly
- >>>>obvious, to any resonably astute person though, given the sources I've
- >>>>cited.
-
- >>>Cited? Sources? As in "a book, any book, on obstetrics"? Hell, *I*
- >>>can do better than that, and I never displayed any pretentions to
- >>>working in a medical field.
-
- >>PHoney, I've posted the documentation for that 4-5 times now. If you
- >>can't find it because of your Custom Installation of the
- >>NyikosNewsReader, with AI message deletion, that's your problem.
-
- > Okay, be that way. I'd like to know whether Steve Matheson has seen
- > the documentation. [Copy of this post goes to him.]
-
- "The documentation" for what? Man, am I confused. I'll say this: Mark
- Cochran has been darn good at posting references in our recent thread,
- which was the kind in which references are important protection from
- temporary (or even chronic) pinheadedness. It's also clear that a
- combustion-enriched environment does not encourage the use of thorough
- documentation, perhaps because such an environment seldom contains
- information worth citing.
-
- >>>> I never felt like my profession was the issue, since I was (and
- >>>>am) able to back up statements with citations that do not rely on my
- >>>>own expertise.
-
- >>>As above? or are you smugly sitting on the escape clause "able to"?
-
- Isn't the point here that if you can read you don't have to provide
- a lot of your own expertise? Heck, I'm not a pharmacologist, but
- I can read the Merck Index. I've never seen the brain of a human
- embryo, and I'm not an embryologist, but I can read, and I can
- make some pretty secure judgments regarding the veracity of my
- sources. Then I can proceed to draw conclusions about the developing
- brain.
-
- >>Yes PHoney, as above. As in '4-5 times' I've posted the sources you
- >>asked for. Steve Matheson did too, for that matter.
-
- So we're talking about sources on the implantation rate. No, I've
- not seen any posts by Mark Cochran that included references on the
- subject. Alas, this proves nothing: I have neither the time nor
- the interest in reading all the netnoise in this forum, and threads
- full of bickering (especially long ones) I blissfully ignore :-).
-
- > Except that his source disagreed with yours. You said 2/3 of all
- > zygotes fail to implant, his gave a GUESS that 1/3 to 1/2 fail to
- > do so.
-
- I don't think anyone knows, and as I recall, my post pointed out that
- there are obvious limitations to estimating the occurrence of something
- that is nearly impossible to detect. I think a 2/3 failure rate is
- higher than most estimates, but we are talking about estimates.
-
- Since I don't think Mark is a liar, I'm guessing that he blurted out
- 2/3 in a flamefest. Perhaps he had learned of a 2/3 success rate and
- got it backwards. Flames can do that. Mark should know that. That's
- why I don't like to hang around flames.
-
- Goodbye.
-
- --
-
- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona
- sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
-