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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Purging Stoll and his kind
Message-ID: <366@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 13:09:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 13:09:19 1985
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> Twice now, Steve has ridiculed something I have placed on the net;
> only to have strong evidence to the contrary be published within a few
> days of his unsupported position.  His response has been to regress
> (like the child who reverts to bedwetting when the new baby is brought
> home from the hospital) from the relatively advanced societal response
> of ridicule to the relatively more primitive strategy of ignoring.
> 

I would like to clarify my comment, in case there are others like Walt
who may have misinterpreted me.  I was not proposing "ignoring" crackpots, as
much as refusing to engage in extended debate.  I have seen too many other
news groups degenerate into such harangues, and net.med is not the place
for this.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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