----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Harvey" <aharvey@boulder.nist.gov>
To: "Paul Nelson" <pnelson2@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: Discovery Institute and Professor J.Y. Chen
> At 04:54 PM 6/2/00 -0500, Paul Nelson wrote:
> >Allan Harvey wrote:
> >
> > > For those who didn't read the original post carefully,
> > > it should be noted that Glenn was not the slanderer
> > > here -- he was posting something (adding his own
> > > cautionary phrases like "may be") somebody else had
> > > written in a reputable journal.
> >
> >Give me a break, Allan. Try this, by way of comparison:
> >
> >"I hear John Doe may be beating his wife. Gee, whaddya
> >think about that?"
>
> There is a difference between "I hear" and something published in a
> reputable journal. If I see a News item in Science, I feel like I can
> quote it without checking original sources. But a charge that serious
> probably does merit an attempt at verification before passing it on,
> especially when you are just an e-mail away
Allan and Paul are right about the fact that I should have e-mailed Paul
first. I apologise to Paul, to the Discovery Institute and to Prof. Chen for
not verifying this first. And I also apologize to this list for this one.
I blew it here--no two ways about it.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
Lots of information on creation/evolution
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 02 2000 - 22:26:40 EDT