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To: cosmicforce who wrote (94316)	1/21/2005 7:29:05 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

A counter-rant by a single female supporter (not involved in any way in the salient facts, or possessing a membership in the group of relevant individuals) isn't. It lacks credibility. My gosh, how far afield this is going. Summers did not state a conclusion. He raised a question in the vein of "Is it possible that ...?" What kind of "credibility" do you need to support his posing of a provocative question to a gathering of scientists? If 100 to 600 science faculty are "ranting" about being challenged with an unpopular hypothetical, the closed-mindedness of the academy is even worse than some of us already thought. How can you support scientists stomping on the floor in unison to choke off the expression of a controversial idea?