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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rillinois who wrote (12691)	3/2/2001 7:23:12 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

"Speak for yourself. I am very careful to research my facts before I post information. I challenge you to find anything that I have posted as a fact that is erroneous." On January 10th you listed AMAT as an example of Bob not changing his mind in the face of changing market conditions. I then pointed out that AMAT was an example of Brinker realizing the value of large-cap members of the sector, since he recommended dollar-cost-averaging into them in the summer of 1998, and advised people against getting into them near the highs. "How can credibility be irrelevant?" Because no one is infallible. If people accept statements from people they believe to be credible without thinking for themselves and comparing the asserted facts to what they have been able to learn elsewhere, then they run the risk that this could be the time that their "credible" source turns out to be wrong. "Credible" does not equal "infallible." "I believe exposing liars and those that have agendas to perpetuate lies works very well." The problem with that is that accusing people of being liars usually requires making assumptions about the facts or about people's motives, and what's worse, it inevitably destroys civil discourse. For example, Geode recently characterized Moneytalk as an "infomercial", and when I called that a lie, he was rightly upset about it. People can easily damage their own reputations by pursuing such tactics.