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To: JohnM who wrote (55005)	7/19/2004 10:32:08 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793572

Hi, JohnM, I have a lot of academic friends as well as, obviously, a lot of lawyer friends. Academics are an interesting bunch. Almost invariably, with the notable exception of the hard science and engineering types, when faced with facts that they don't like or from which inferences opposite to their views are justified, the argument I hear is "but no one really knows, does one?" It's almost reflexive. Lawyers, at least the more imaginative ones, take facts and often deduce the craziest things, building beautiful but erroneous constructs from the flimsiest evidence. PS: I added the latter so that you wouldn't take my point about soft science academics personally, which I am sure you might otherwise be tempted to do.