In article ,
Adam Lea writes:
On 18/11/11 19:29, John Hall wrote:
In ,
Eskimo writes:
"John wrote in message
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It's surprising how worked up scientists can get.)

Only when people are being stupid! :-)

But many scientists seem to define stupid as "anyone who doesn't agree
with me". (I'm not anti-scientist BTW. I was one myself, after a
fashion.)

No they don't, such an attitude would fly completely in the face of
the scientific method.

Indeed it would, but scientists are human beings and as such are liable
to have human failings. Saying "many" was perhaps a bit unfair, but I've
seen exchanges in the letters pages of scientific journals that, if they
had occurred in a newsgroup, would have been described as flame wars.
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw