Re: petty bickering academics

From: Chris Cogan (ccogan@telepath.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 13:37:42 EDT

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    At 09:33 AM 10/24/2000, you wrote:
    >>Considering the petty, childish bickering in which academics at universities
    >>indulge, if Baylor and this board are typical, why shouldn't the public take
    >>everything they say with a grain of salt? I'll accept the technical stuff,
    >>provisionally, but will view their interpretations as no more astute than
    >>anyone else's version.
    >>
    >>Bertvan
    >>http://members.aol.com/bertvan

    Susan
    >Argument and debate is the way science is done. It's the only way to get
    >closer and closer to the truth.

    Chris
    To be fair to Bertvan, I think she's talking about the political
    shenanigans at Baylor, not any alleged "science" that may be involved.



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