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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (313602)12/2/2006 8:29:37 PM
From: Taro  Read Replies (1) of 1573682
 
I studied and still study discussions about GW for instance.
"We firmly believe..." you better be careful here.

Or "expert" opinions about smoking and its impact on the lungs.

Have you ever looked up this matter in dictionaries and books from the 1930s?

You would be surprised to read, that "we even believe smoking could have a beneficial effect and prevent TBC". Or "cancer almost never affects the lungs". In our time nobody - except maybe Philip Morris - would ever start a discussions about the causality between smoking and lung cancer like "we now believe...". Rather than "we" the pronomen "it" would take its place. "It is a proven fact...".

The theories starting with a "we are now certain..." are almost always about matters subject to turbulent changes, sometimes to the opposite, as the "believers" (= the "experts") change minds about what they have no clue about.

Taro
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