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From: rdnelson@tucson.princeton.edu (Roger D. Nelson)
Subject: Re: Sterility, (was Why scientists popularize premature speculations?)
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In article <3blatj$1te@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> sarfatti@ix.netcom.com (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
>In <3bkpqv$k6b@pobox.csc.fi> grohn@finsun.csc.fi (Lauri Gr|hn) writes: 
>
...

>> Why should scientist brainstorms
>>in front of laymen?
>
>This thread is sterile. It's like trying to explain color to a blind 
>man. Or like trying to explain humor to Cmdr Data before he plugged in 
>his emotion chip in the latest Star Trek movie.

Yup.  Although Gr|hn's attitude is chauvinistic, and hence offensive, it
is not interesting.
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