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Article #1182Re: Will the scientific community ever shut up?
From: Jay Hanson
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <mh-2607951322400001@ip200.sna.primenet.com>, mh@primenet.com says... -> ->In article <3v412g$l6g@lehua.ilhawaii.net>, jhanson@ilhawaii.net (Jay ->Hanson) wrote: -> ->> What is "unfounded panic"? -> ->"Founded panic" is the state of mental and emotional confusion and turmoil ->when you discover yourself locked in a cage with a large, hungry, ->carnivorous animal. -> ->"Unfounded panic" is the same state when the animal turns out just to be a ->very lifelike picture of that same large, hungry, carnivorous animal. -> ->Got it? By your definition, fear of death or mutilation is "founded" if it could happen and "unfounded" if it could not. Is that it? If so, is panic concerning ozone depletion founded or unfounded? How do you know? Jay -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -- not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." -- George Orwell, 1984
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7693,51a9ffb352484100 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7693,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,a88a16b00dd8e065 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: f504b,a88a16b00dd8e065 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,a88a16b00dd8e065 X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,a88a16b00dd8e065 X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public X-Google-Thread: fb58e,a88a16b00dd8e065 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,a88a16b00dd8e065 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,238b91f85fc75271 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public From: jhanson@ilhawaii.net (Jay Hanson) Subject: Re: Will the scientific community ever shut up? Date: 1995/07/27 Message-ID: <3v6oh0$1nm@lehua.ilhawaii.net> X-Deja-AN: 107106961 references: <3sug47$cuo@centauri.hq.nasa.gov> <B.Hamilton.488.2FF2EA8B@irl.cri.nz> <STEINN.95Jul11102047@sandy.ast.cam.ac.uk> <DBrL2t.LtM.0.queen@torfree.net> <3u8u1a$1a0a@firehose.mindspring.com> <3u940t$l4v@lehua.ilhawaii.net> <3u9apd$gi6@news.mindspri <3uiu6h$h5t@wrdis02.robins.af.mil> <3v2pci$sea@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <3v412g$l6g@lehua.ilhawaii.net> <mh-2607951322400001@ip200.sna.primenet.com> organization: InterLink Hawaii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: talk.environment,tor.general,ont.general,can.general,mtl.general,bc.general,aus.general,uk.general,nyc.general,ny.general,la.general,ca.general,ab.general,ns.general,nb.general,pei.general,nz.general,nf.ge