From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Sun Dec 09 2007 - 11:35:50 MST
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 "Rick Smith"
<rick.smith@ntlworld.com> said:
> So the validity of an idea is determined
> by the celebrity of the proponent?
Yes, exactly. When a Nobel Prize winning scientist announces a
revolutionary discovery in Nature or Science I am interested, very
interested indeed; when a similar announcement is made by Henry J
Bumblefuck in the National Inquirer I am somewhat less interested, if
truth be told I don’t consider it worth 10 seconds of my time.
John K Clark
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