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  Re: Is this the end of the world as we know it?  
From: Warp
Date: 1 Oct 2011 02:21:32
Message: <4e86b16c@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> There's plenty of that. Co-students mocking you, and the teacher grading
> >>> you. ;-)
> >
> >> Whereas in *real* scientice, it's other eminent scientists who mock you...
> >
> >    That's the whole point. If your results stand up to that kind of
> > scrutiny, you're a winner. (See eg. the paper named "100 authors against
> > Einstein".)

> What worries me is the possibility of a theory not being taken seriously 
> because nobody likes it, rather than because the theory doesn't work...

  Then the detractors would have to point out the flaws.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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