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From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
Subject: RE: Danah Zohar's pseudoscientific books
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In article <28NOV94.03302870@cc4.crl.aecl.ca>, edwardsg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
|> >        ....                    Your attitude is that of the Ancient 
|> >Egyptian Priesthood who used knowledge for repressive power over the 
|> >masses. It is antidemocratic. Half-baked ideas are very important. 

Not in virtue of their being half-baked.  Most of them aren't important
at all -- just half-baked.

|> >Let a thousand wacko ideas flourish! Let the collective mind operate. 
|> >Natural selection of memes will do the trick. Let no stone be unturned. 

But this is exactly what is happening.  You simply need to recognize
selection pressures when you are on the receiving end.

|> >That is the beauty of the internet. It is a vast discarnate 
|> >error-correcting code for new ideas.

Again, this is what is happening.  Your errors are being corrected.

|> P.S.  The idea that science should be 'democratic' is one of the most
|> absurd things I've ever read on this newsgroup.  What are you going to
|> do -- legislate the laws of nature?

There are, of course, very strong selection pressures applied to
those who insist that the laws of nature are otherwise then in
fact they are.

-- 
Gary H. Merrill  [Principal Systems Developer, Compiler and Tools Division]
SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC  27513 / (919) 677-8000
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