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To: Right Wing Professor
Meyer's paper is just a hackneyed warming over of creationist arguments. It contains no new data and no original thought. The flap was over how an apparently creationist editor abused his position to publish something that doesn't conform to the generally accepted standards for reporting of scientific results.

So you decided on the Ad Hominem. Good way to debate. Keep up the good work.

211 posted on 10/13/2005 3:13:42 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate". NYTimes)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
So you decided on the Ad Hominem. Good way to debate. Keep up the good work

No, this was a criticism of a paper, not a person. Possibly if you had some exposure to the scientific literature*, you'd realize that we criticize people's work all the time, and in no sense is that a criticism of them personally.

*see, now that's an ad hominem

213 posted on 10/13/2005 3:23:28 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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