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In article <BILL.95Jul8195956@ca2.nsma.arizona.edu>,
Bill Skaggs <bill@nsma.arizona.edu> wrote:
>zeleny@oak.math.ucla.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
>
>   The ever-shrinking NSF research budgets give plenty of reasons to
>   prevaricate when discussing influential critics of one's research
>   program.
>
>Come on, now:  It's one thing to say that she's wrong, and something
>else entirely to say that she's lying about what she believes for the
>sake of money.  Unless of course you have some evidence to back it up.

To put a fine point on it, the suggestion was made that Churchland had
no reason to lie, and Zeleny provided a reason.  We can all have our
own judgements as to whether that reason was operative in this case.

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