hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) (02/28/85)
In four years of studying experimental design, statistical analysis, and
scientific method in general I learned, among other things, these two
facts:
1) You can't explain the rationale behind scientific method in 25
words or less.
2) You can't explain it at all to someone who doesn't want to hear it
because it casts doubt on their pet theories and/or beliefs.
The current discussion of unconventional cancer cures and laetril, etc. is
beginning to sound a lot like net.abortion and/or net.origins. Much heat
is being generated, and no one's opinions are being changed by it.
I propose either dropping the discussion, or moving it to net.flame where
it more appropriately belongs. Then net.med and net.veg can go back to
being the useful, informative forums they were before the subject was
brought up.
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The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)
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{vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombecarter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) (03/04/85)
> The current discussion of unconventional cancer cures and laetril, etc. is > beginning to sound a lot like net.abortion and/or net.origins. Much heat > is being generated, and no one's opinions are being changed by it. > > I propose either dropping the discussion, or moving it to net.flame where > it more appropriately belongs. Then net.med and net.veg can go back to > being the useful, informative forums they were before the subject was > brought up. In my opinion, this is the best discussion that has been in this news group in over a year. I'd much rather talk about this than chiropractors. -- Carter Bullard ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet:Carter @ Gatech ARPA:Carter.Gatech @ CSNet-relay.arpa uucp:...!{akgua,allegra,amd,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!carter