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Speaking the Unspoken

pspangle at global.california.com pspangle at global.california.com
Fri May 17 07:33:20 EST 1996


 

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!"   :(





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