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Re: canada.com Story. skepticism. get off your chair

Subject: Re: canada.com Story. skepticism. get off your chair
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:27 pm (PDT)
Richard Lyttle, you wrote:

>Martyn, you will be proved wrong about IBW. you are actually not
>helping at all, by saying bring me a dead bird or whatever you
>need..do you want to sit in your chair and we'll bring it to you?
>
>its so easy to be a skeptic-it requires no imagination. Einstein
>said imagination was more important than knowledge-it worked for Dr.
>Gill of Auburn. If you spent more time studying it and maybe even
>helped me or others, trying to get the IBW documented....I guess you
>want others to do the heavy liftiing and then we can get the martyn
>pronouncement the bird is alive. It's alive, Martyn. Wake up! I
>could really use your help.
>otherwise, you are starting to look foolish and shrill in front of
>the mounting evidence. and i looked up to you before.

Skepticism is the scientific attitude. It's easy to find confirming
evidence for a theory. A good theory has not only confirming evidence
but the ability to survive challenges. Challenging an hypothesis
isn't mean-spirited--it's what scientists are supposed to do. It's
the best path to reliable knowledge.

-Dan Dugan




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