Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!pooh
From: pooh@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Platygaeanism
Message-ID: <14163@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 23 Dec 87 18:09:06 GMT
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Reply-To: pooh@oddjob.uchicago.edu.UUCP (obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant)
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Keywords: platygaeanism

In article <9959@shemp.UCLA.EDU> troly@CS.UCLA.EDU (Bret Jolly) writes:
>The problem is not the lack of an answer but that there are so many plausible
>answers.  There are a plethora of platygaean cosmologies and we platygaean
>scientists must winnow them down in order to get at the truth.

Golly!  This sounds an awful lot like "Let's choose the evidence and
theory that best supports our already-chosen conclusion."

Where is Dr. Science when you need him?
Pooh
      pooh@oddjob.uchicago.edu

"Remember--he knows MORE than YOU do!"