Science / Open Mind / but who has all that free time anyhow

["Andy Gough, x4-2906, pager 420-2284, CH2-59" <AGOUGH@FAB6.intel.com>]

>Date:	Mon, 14 Oct 1991 07:06:48 -0700
>From:	barger@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Jorn Barger)
>To:	love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu
>Subject: Re: Kate placed a half-page ad in Billboard!
>Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
>Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
>
>Ah, now here's a thread I can sink my teeth into.  "Stupid and pseudo-
>scientific" huh?  And how many experiments have you done?  So whose
>opinion are you parroting?  And how many experiments did they do?
>
>I despise the "scientifically correct" (SC) approach to what classes
>of event are allowed to be considered in our universe.  It's based
>on a miniscule success in analysing objects' physical behavior, and
>claims to be able to generalize from that success to absolute
>certainty about what's possible in psychology and every other realm.
>
>It isn't even good physics, usually, because good physics is wide
>open right now as to what macro-level implications quantum mech-
>anics may have.
>
>So keep an open mind, please?
>

O'kay, but with your extraordinary claims, I want you to provide extraordinary
proof of those claims.  I think that's fair.

-andy