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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Jerry Kraus
Date: Aug 27, 2008 12:46

On Aug 27, 2:33 pm, thro...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote:
> : Jerry Kraus yahoo.com>
> : Yes, I know, anyone who ever thinks scientists should have proof of
> : their claims is a lunatic.
>
> Not at all.  Anybody who thinks it's reasonable to lock somebody up
> because you disagree about how much proof they have, or that somebody
> should be glad they were rescued from obscurity by being burned at
> the stake, is a lunatic.  Just thinking that there ought to be proof
> is called "peer review".
>
> Wayne Throop   thro...@sheol.org  http://sheol.org/throopw

Oh, if you're saying that Giordano Bruno was crazy, you may be right.
I'd certainly never try to get myself burned at the stake to draw
attention to something I wrote, but he certainly did, and succeeded in
doing so. As to locking Galileo up for not having proof of his
claims:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-Suk

They still do that. It's called fraud.

Are you deliberately playing straight man for me, by the way?
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