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so how many fancts supported the idea that fungi produce antibiotics ?

Until Alexander Fleming happened to notice something, quite by accident, a *spoiled* petri dish, and normally molds were viewed as nuisance contaminants, but Fleming looked closely and observed (note here the idea of observation preceeding any formal model, he just looked and saw an unusual phenomenon) that there was a ring of antisepsis around the mold colony...

Or the guys at bell labs who *knew* that transistors were not suited for portable radios ?

Or the generals in the first world was who "knew" that the machine gun was a highly overrated weapon ?

Or the head of the patent office who thought it should be closed because everyhting that could be invented already had been ?

Basically I'd say your imaginal life is one long(winded) process of making sure your mind is tightly closed against anything but the narrowest of specifics.....

For example, how do you know changind a receptacle makes any difference at all ? Would you have levelled these same arguments against *any* manufacturer who makes a better receptacle ? Would you insist that platings make no difference ? Probably...

From there we proceed to the even more enlightened position that no innovation makes any sense unless you can fully account for all the variables in advance.... becuase you are thereby isnsisting that *any* innovative effort that cannot fully explain what it is about is somehow either 1, irrational, 2, deluded, or 3, in bad faith...

Which is, well, extremely stupid, and well, even stupider than it looks on first blush, becaue you perform the truly idiotic mental acrobatic of lumping together a willingness to go outside of one's famiar turf on the basis of some speculation with the "founding of religion". Give me a break. You need an I.Q. of about 80 to find that philosophical position satisfying...

But you can't be that dumb. Or.. maybe you can....


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  • so how many fancts supported the idea that fungi produce antibiotics ? - tonemaniac 15:55:20 09/17/07 (1)

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