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In Reply to: RE: crack smoking is similarly derided for good reason.. but somebody'll go to bat for it. posted by stuck.wilson@gmail.com on June 28, 2007 at 13:54:34
That same dripping sarcasm has been directed to experimenters in a wide variety of now-scientific fields. Through the ages there was much hooting and hollering from the likes of stuck.wilson, who evidently have some difficulty wrapping their minds around the fact that science is not a finished effort.
I quote from the great (and widely derided) Nicola Tesla:
"The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. Dr. Hertz did not discover a new principle. He merely gave material support to hypothesis."
Stuck.wilson clearly has no interest in experimentation *or* hypothesis, contenting himself instead with sneering from the sidelines.
clark
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