> BrianW
hotmail.com> wrote:>> On 6 Jul, 15:17, Derek Geldard
miniac.demon.co.uk> wrote:>>> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 01:52:20 -0700 (PDT), BrianW
>
>
>>>>Gollum hadn't realised that the list of countries is arranged in
>>>>alphabetical order. ?Christ, what a retard.
>
>>> In Duhgworld learning the alphabet counts as "Science".
>
>>> IGWS Lugless Duhglas doesn't do "Science", but reckons his opinions
>>> are just as valuable as those who have made the effort to learn about
>>> that about which they opine ...
>
>> Yes, in the infamous "two ozones" thread, ISTR that Gollum, in
>> response to a post citing a NASA study which was inconvenient for
>> Gollum's "thesis", responded that whilst NASA's scientists may well
>> each have decades of education and experience, he had access to the
>> same raw data as them, and his mind hadn't been closed by immersion in
>> scientific dogma.
>
> There were also his long running arguments with Barry Cragg about
> science in general, biology in particular. Including the Duhg classic
> that rabbits had idependently evolved (from
> something unspecified) but had ended up morphologically and genetically
> identical to rabbits on the mainland, apparently by sheer chance.
>
> That's the Barry Cragg with a long track record of publication in
> peer-reviewed journals[1] covering genetics and microbiology.
LOL! The man is beyond belief.
>> You really couldn't make it up.
>
> Well you could but everyone would think you were exaggerating.
I doubt I could have made up the bit about Gollum being equal or
better to NASA scientists - perhaps someone with a better imagination
could ...
