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Re: Fighting anti-science with psychobabble (was Re: More Suzuki Anti-Science)

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From: hiflight
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 06:43
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Eric� (Eric�@hardknocks.edu) wrote:
: Stephen H. Kawamoto wrote...
: > I sort of wonder if this "sham" science Suzuki is supposedly spouting
: > reflects on his family origins somewhat.

You have no foundation to call Dr. Suzuki's popularization of science a
"sham". None.

: > Suzuki may inflate facts because it brings in donations.

I have seen no evidence that Dr. Suzuki has exagerated anything. Indeed if
anything, he may have understated and de-emphasized some of the data.

: Certainly.  Although my guess is that David has little to do with the 
: abominations that go on in his name.

Abominations??? Name a single example.

:  
: > Why? It's marketing, pure and simple.  The scare tactics do not involve
: > statistics, just some reasonable hyperbole.

: Certainly again, Steve.

Not everyone is a fucked up in the brain as this author, thinking of
everything in terms of profit and loss. There is nothing worse, than a man
who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

: I snipped the rest, Stephen, because it is simply wild speculation.  I 
: realize that Suzuki may have a Napoleon complex, but I doubt if he even 
: reads half of the bumph that goes out under his name.

: E.Schild
: haffabee@usa.net

Eric, fuck off you asshole. You lunatics in the Fraser Institute should
wake up and smell the coffee. The public of Canada can now sniff right
wing "neo-con" bullshit at 1000 meters with both eyes closed and one
nostril pinched.

You clowns simply have no credability. And as the unfolding disaster of
"globalization" works its way through the nations of the world, your
"emperor" will be exposed for the naked despot that he really is.

Joe Green
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