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From: david@mirror.TMC.COM (David Chesler)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article (fallout...)
Keywords: debunking skepticism debunking
Message-ID: <17080@mirror.TMC.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 88 20:31:03 GMT
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In article <6689@well.UUCP> sierch@well.UUCP (Michael Sierchio) writes:
>
>Randi is a self-confessed charlatan -- so why believe anything he says or
>does?  

  Norton's Simulation Tool is a self-confessed mock-up.  So why believe
that any of his Tools actually do anything?

(It is a magician's job to fool us.  It is the Amazing Randi qua Ivestigator,
  not magician who is skeptically investigating the experiments.)

              -- David Chesler (david@prism.tmc.com)

Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of any Norton software or any
 brand of personal computer.  Just an example.