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Originally Posted by tonybarry
I'd like to echo Allan_L's statement:- "And if someone knows the answer to the three questions he [Fielding] posed, can you please post them, without emotion, and without insulting the questioner. I hear a lot of Bluff and Bubble about what an idiot he is. Can someone please explain why. Other than to simply say the experts say so."
I am interested in science. The science I know about is based on the repeatable test; on predictive modelling; on experimental results before theory; and especially that no question is too stupid to be answered.
I am OK with statements like "We don't have all the answers as yet, but ..."
What I am not OK with is "All those who disagree with position X are fools."
If this were a journal and I were submitting a paper for peer review, the editor would have the right to say "Go away and do your homework."
This is not a journal and I am more interested in the homework anyway. If anyone can explain, I'd be pleased to read. Especially with regard to what the skeptics say.
Regards,
Tony Barry
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thank god there are some non sheep around