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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: thanks for the help...
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Date: 17 Oct 89 00:40:33 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Oct 16 08:56:00 1989



>No, we generally consider somebody who randomly tries things as a very
>poor scientist.

>>How would you othervise come to know, what isn't known?  to understand what
>>is misunderstood?

I am a physicist, and above most such silly things (except slaughtering
goats, which are delicious) .But, really, synthetic chemists really
do try adding pinches of random magic ingredients to their recipies
in hope of getting better yields. Really. There is a VERY long list of
these magic ingredients. 

Doig McDonald