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From: sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article (fallout...)
Keywords: skepticism debunking
Message-ID: <498@metapsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 05:09:32 GMT
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In article <1930@aecom.YU.EDU> werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes:
>	Actually, Randi's only assumption was that "all known laws of physics
>are valid."

That's quite an assumption, when one is looking at something that may
invalidate existing laws of physics.  A prejudice, I would say.  If all
physicists had such an assumption, there would be no discoveries of new
laws of physics, no progress in the field of physics.

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