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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (192270)6/29/2004 9:11:27 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) of 1577694
 
Personally, I prefer basing my views on proof. Otherwise, the slippery slope to pseudo-science appears inevitable.

Consider the case of the late Soviet "scientist" Lysenko - he spent his whole life putting out one "intuitive" (according to the principles of Soviet ideology) hypothesis after another - like "stimulating the growth of trees by crowding them on a field" as if they were communist minions - intuitive to them, but really not correct as any scientific observation can show. Since no proof was required and all opposition ended up in Siberia, he had free rein and singlehandedly choked scientific objectivity in the Soviet Union.

Not blaming you for anything here, but just pointing out the importance of scientific method of hypothesis, experiment, and proof. Intuition is great if you are guessing whether or not your wife wants roses tonight, but it cannot be a basis for claiming validity of any hypothesis.

And all of that is of course just my opinion :-)
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