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To: blam
This is a perfect example of the uncertainty of the "soft" sciences. Those where inferences make up 90% of the results: like rebuilding a hominid from a toe bone...

Up until now, the "fact" that grains were the first agricultural food was a scientific "fact".
Suddenly, overnight, it fades into the realm of "mistaken belief".

Aside from the jokes of global warming and indians in reservations being America's true and original owners, there are myriad other such "facts" that turn out not to be facts at all...

4 posted on 06/01/2006 6:00:33 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Publius6961
there are myriad other such "facts" that turn out not to be facts at all...

And if you don't like that, you won't like pure science.

But you can still be an engineer. ;^)

14 posted on 06/01/2006 7:23:55 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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