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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (164919)	3/3/2012 10:13:50 AM
From: Bearcatbob	6 Recommendations of 206110

Dennis - science is no longer science - it is simply another form of politicing. Every engineer or scientists knows that the assumptions of an analysis can largely dictate the results. Alternately we used to focus on defining the system boundary for the basis of evaluation. In one of my classes we had the worlds greatest prof - a now deceased Dr. Price. In one of our tests a fellow student raised his hand and told Dr. Price he had not given us all of the information to solve the problem. Dr. Price sort of looked at the guy and said something to the effect that in real life you would never have all of the data - he wanted to see the quality of our assumptions. Well - the quality of assumptions today are simply not quality as they are fabrications as needed to get a desired result. Bob PS: Following that event we used to say that we had to assume concrete behaved like an ideal gas at low temperature and pressure. Oh well - one of the best lessons of the past now makes even more sense today. PSS: I loved that old guy! He was a formative figure in years of UC Chem Es.

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