Quoted message said:Dear Ed,
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Quoted message said:I'm beginning to suspect that you just made up a nonsensical claim and
are unwilling to admit it
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Quoted message said:Cheers,
Carl Fogel
Dear Carl,
Those of us with scientific training are starting to dread these
letters of yours containing the words "I'm starting to suspect" as the
start of another embarrassing witch-hunt in your long history of
bullying.
Ed Pirrero didn't "make up a nonsensical claim". Mr Pirrero
postulated, he posited, he hypothesized, he speculated, he guessed --
take your pick. Among gentlemen and among scientists the assumption is
that those who disagree with Mr Pirrero will now help him specify,
fund and conduct a study to prove or disprove the hypothesis. Note
that in true science, as distinct from the spurious scientism you
adhere to, dear Carl, proving or disproving the hypothesis is equally
desirable: the kudos go to the person with the brains and the
imagination to offer a potential solution encapsulated in the
hypothesis, not to the kneejerk reflexes of the automatic naysayers.
You're not offering help, dear Carl. Far from it. You're calling Mr
Pirrero a liar because he dares further the work of science. It is
what the Spanish Inquisition once did, and in the same sinisterly
insinuating travesty of socialized manners that you use: "Please
permit us show you the instruments." (1)
If you do not understand how science works, dear Carl, for instance if
your parents apprenticed you to a bricklayer to be his hod carrier, we
can understand and make allowances, though it must be said that if you
were paying attention on RBT you would long since have learned what I
am sharing with you now merely from the interplay of good minds from
various disciplines. If your parents paid for an education, they
should ask for the tuition back, because your education failed to
inculcate you with the difference between proper scientific method and
its many mimics among the polemical faiths and heresies. (This matter
is so serious that, if your parents are dead, they should demand the
return of the tuition they paid in an urgent ouijagram.)
Once could be an accident. But you have now made this sort of mistake
too many times to overlook. People are starting to wonder where
between Ron L Hubbard's Scientology and Mary Baker Eddy's Christian
Science they should place Fogel SpuScientism. That's embarrassing for
the rest of us. "Hey, Jute, I hear you're on a newsgroup of trick
cyclists with that SpuScientism fellow, whatsisname, Fogel, free as
bird of proper Popper Method. Hahaha."
Please stop embarrassing us, Carl. I'm asking you nicely. You already
know I'm not in the habit of asking twice.
Flamboyantly yours,
Andre Jute
If you gotta pop a Popper, pick a Karl Popper. -- Hopscotch rhythm,
LSE, the hot summer of 1968
(1) The Inquisition didn't itself torture; it "relaxed" the accused to
civil authorities who tortured; it was the rack and tongs of the local
Krygo-Fogel gang the monks made such a show of exhibiting -- the
showing of the instruments is the point where Galileo recanted. He
wasn't the only one.