Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: General research for/by the military. Message-ID: <5469@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 17:43:58 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5469 Posted: Fri Apr 12 17:43:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Apr-85 17:43:58 EST References: <5437@utzoo.UUCP> <487@deepthot.UUCP> <2255@wateng.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19 > In article <5452@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: > >It does not render his arguments invalid, but it offers some reason for > >hesitating to accept them without detailed proof. > Does that mean (since I *would* accept military money in easily- > imagined circumstances) that you will accept my arguments more > readily than Julian 's? > > (Actually, of course, the previous parenthesis is there in exactly > that hope. We're talking about a natural human tendency, but not > a respectable one.) Not quite so clear-cut. Unwillingness to take military money is not a definitive sign of the sort of bias I was talking about, and for that matter, willingness to take it is not a definitive sign of absence of said bias. But it is a strong hint, enough to modulate my degree of skepticism somewhat. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry