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From: jxs@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Joseph Saponaro)
Subject: Re: Why scientists popularize premature speculations?
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In article <1994Nov29.044228.10139@Princeton.EDU>, rdnelson@tucson.princeton.edu (Roger D. Nelson) writes:
> As for examples, unless you have totally ignored your education,
> practically everything you have learned in science was first a
> conjecture, unsupported by much beyond intuition, and very often
> disputed vigorously before eventual insertion into your textbooks. 
> -- 
>      Roger D. Nelson, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)

	Hear, hear! What else can we say?
