Hey Jed, The man of many words is being awfully brief here.
I'm not asking you to defend your position. I'm asking that you look at the charter of the list, and see if it matches your _idea_ of what the list is. Let me quote it again. http://www.amasci.com/weird/vmore.html ********************************************************** Vortex-L is intended to be a discussion area for researchers who practice extreme openmindedness and who will "accept falsehoods in order to avoid rejecting truths". This forum is for those with a low tolerance for consensus-think and a high tolerance for "crazy ideas." *********************************************************** As such, it seems perfectly within the bounds of the list to make statements about Ben Spock, MM OHare and God being personally responsible for the destruction of an American city. OTOH, cold fusion is now more or less being accepted as science, and as such, does not at all meet the criteria expressed in the charter and should (now) be considered OT. K. -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Fw: (off topic) Keith Nagel wrote: >Talk about gross factual errors! Jed, this list is _not_ a science >based discussion list. There is a WORLD of difference between suspending disbelief and ignoring facts. I am always ready to "consider ideas and phenomena," but that is not the same as pretending that Benjamin Spock said things he did not say. "Suspending disbelief" would include entertaining the notion that spanking is actually good for children. That is plausible. It would not include inventing statistics to show that crime is increasing when it is actually decreasing. >If I'm off base here . . . Way off base. - Jed
