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khorsell@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Kym Horsell) wrote:

>Doug Bashford <bashford@psnw.com> wrote:

>>...has it come to my attention that in the past you have copied
>>long anti-environmental passages complete with footnotes,
>>unattributed, directly from right-wing radio talk show comedian
>>Rush Limbaugh's book: *The Way It Aught to Be*, to the Net.
>>Do you deny this? 
>
>Sometime around Feb 1996 there was a thread visible
>on Aus.politics re "Goldilocks and the Ozone Layer", that saw
>Grieg Ebeling making quite a few claims along -- let's just say -- 
>"suspiciously parallel lines". 
>
>Some of the "explanations" he used were also remarkably
>similar to what pass for footnotes in Rushbo's book. A few of the
>c1970 references cited in both cases were the same.
>
>But, of course, that doesn't "irrefutably prove" anything.

One reason it does not prove anything is, why should I believe you?
Only the most irresponsible person would make such accusations without
proof.  If you have any, you should post it.  Otherwise, you should
just keep you assertions to yourself.

I have no idea if either you or Mr Eberling are correct or not.  

My comment is simply one of surprise to learn that Rush Limabugh's
book contains any kind of footnotes at all.  I gues that proves that,
unlike you, he made some kind of attempt to prove his assertions.

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Regards, Harold
------
"By September 1979, all important life in the sea was extinct. 
Large areas of coastline had to be evacuated...  A pretty grim 
scenario. Unfortunately were a long way into it already...based 
on projections of trends already appearing..."
   - Paul Ehrilich, Environmental Handbook, 1970, pp 174