Re: [asa] Two questions...Ayala's article

>For example, it's quite easy to check whether newspaper horoscopes or
>psychic hotlines are any better at predictions than average bored
>undergrads. In contrast, there's the Journal of Irreproducible
>Results paper that claims to compare angels against rats as lab
>subjects. The angels went through the walls of the maze, weren't
>interested in chow, and generally were not amenable to
>experimentation.

I think they should call it the Journal of Irreplaceable Results.
Angels that go through the wall of the maze and don't care about
chow. If only Dante had thought of that... :)

He did say:

Yet an experiment, were you to try it,
could free you from your cavil-and the source
of your arts' course springs from experiment.

P.

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Received on Fri Feb 27 00:54:36 2009