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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (12675)5/25/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 13994
 
Bob, in the Chomskey example, the core of the charge is that the assertions for which he is famous are widely viewed by professionals as bogus, and therefore the onus is not on me to prove him wrong, but on the others to show why I should yield to his authority, or drop it and move on. That is not snobbery at all. In the case of the Sagan analogy, my little side comment was in lieu of saying something critical about the analogy per se, and thus intended to blunt the criticism. Anyway, it is untrue that an idea is independent of the credentials of the person who thought of it...for example, I obviously would take the Pope's ideas about Catholicism more seriously than Larry King's. We are not in a position to independently evaluate every claim. How many scientific laws have you independently verified? Have you ever used a cyclotron, or for that matter verified the speed of light? Much of what we know we take on authority, and therefore we must weigh the provenance of the various matters asserted.
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