On 16 May 1996, Tom Boismier wrote:
> 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...)
>>>
Also, some of them will reply, "Of course my theory isn't
falsifiable, it's absolutely TRUE!" :(