09-16-2003, 05:18 AM
Hi,
Keeping a sharp eye for whose axe is being ground is only one clue as to whether any figure being quoted is worth believing.
When corporations lie (as they do in nearly every ad they support) I can write it off to "business". But when "scientists" (whose fundamental god is truth) lie, what can I then write it off as?
It may be foolish, it probably is foolish, but I tend to hold some people to higher standards. Which is why crooked cops, corrupt politicians and fraudulent scientists almost make a deist out of me -- only if god exists can there be a hell hot enough and a punishment long enough.
--Pete
Keeping a sharp eye for whose axe is being ground is only one clue as to whether any figure being quoted is worth believing.
When corporations lie (as they do in nearly every ad they support) I can write it off to "business". But when "scientists" (whose fundamental god is truth) lie, what can I then write it off as?
It may be foolish, it probably is foolish, but I tend to hold some people to higher standards. Which is why crooked cops, corrupt politicians and fraudulent scientists almost make a deist out of me -- only if god exists can there be a hell hot enough and a punishment long enough.
--Pete
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