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Speaking the Unspoken

Tom Boismier boismier at umich.edu
Thu May 16 06:11:28 EST 1996


In article <4ndof3$77f at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, kspencer at s.psych.uiuc.edu says...
>
>ej at white.stanford.edu (EJ Chichilnisky) writes:
[snip]

>Perhaps the best approach would be to try to steer these threads into a
>more scientific direction by asking questions like, "can this theory be
>falsified?", "how can you test this hypothesis?", "can you give references
>to back up your statements?", etc.

Nah, that'll just encourage them, and you'll get long lists of obscure 
references like "Dr. Smith-Jones of Paraguay" with no journal attributes. The 
best approach is probably to ignore them (though you'll note that I failed to 
do that with this one...)




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