[Californiajones]

Would you want your wife called an ass?

Didn't think so.

Oh, maybe not. Maybe that is part and parcel of Evothink. A veiled compliment.

I'll get back to you when I have time. In the meantime, God bless.

[Thatcherite]

Would you want your wife called an ass?

Not unless she was behaving like one. It is a mild enough rebuke. I hope you aren't making a gender-based special pleading for me to go easy on you? Hint: to avoid ridicule avoid making claims about science and the history of science that serve only to illustrate your ignorance of both subjects.

Let me know when you've got enough time to back up the claims you've made in this thread about the transparency of gold, and contemporary ridicule of Columbus. I'm still waiting for the formula for germ theory too. You appear to have enough time to post in other threads.