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From: sidney@faron.UUCP (Sidney Markowitz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Dealing with cranks
Message-ID: <352@faron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 09:19:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: faron.352
Posted: Thu Sep 19 09:19:47 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 09:37:09 EDT
References: <181@gargoyle.UUCP>
Reply-To: sidney@faron.UUCP (Sidney Markowitz)
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In article <181@gargoyle.UUCP> carnes@gargoyle (Richard Carnes) quotes:
>
>  [ ... ] Bertrand
>  Russell once observed that the only way to deal successfully with a
>  true crank is to counter his preposterous assertions with even more
>  preposterous ones, until he is driven away, thinking that you are the
>  crank.  Few, however, have that much energy or imagination.
>  
>Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes

I'll bet that Ted Holden is an evolutionist following Betrand
Russell's advice. Notice how quiet the "scientific" creationists have
been lately.

Now, who out in netland has had personal contact with a UFO and will
debate Ted on the *real* story of the seeding of Earth by alien
intelligences?

Whoops, almost forgot...  :-)

					Sidney Markowitz

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					Sidney Markowitz

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