Jones Beene wrote:
I stand by the assertion that Gerry Vassilatos is not just wrong, but guilty of terrible journalism in this instance, and this calls for the "debunking the the bad journalism and urban myth" of his oft-guote disinformation.
If I ever find myself on trial I hope you are not on the jury.
Do we really want some future R&D lab wasting precious millions, pursuing Farnsworth's deception - which because of sloppy journalism gets repeated enough time to make it sound authoritative?
That is preposterous! "Some future R&D lab" will not waste millions of dollars because of something that Vassilatos wrote about something that Farnsworth allegedly observed decades ago. And if these hypothetical future lab researchers are so stupid that they will waste millions chasing after this will-o'-the-wisp, we will not be able to protect the poor dears by hiding the information now.
- Jed
