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To: Ilaine who wrote (35726)	4/23/1999 5:55:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

SHots in your knees, sliding down the stairs, constant pain. Coby, dear, you have every right to a bad mood. I'm in a bad mood and there's nothing wrong with me (that a doubling of all my stocks wouldn't cure). IS the rain the reason your arthritis is acting up so badly?

To: Ilaine who wrote (35726)	4/23/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

DOGBLAST IT, BLUE!! That should get your attention. <g> The sentence you quoted, about Chuzzlewit and myself basing our conclusions "on a great deal of study and direct observations and experience" referred strictly to CONCLUSIONS REACHED IN THE AREAS OF OUR PARTICULAR EXPERTISE ("in the areas you cite" -- i.e., the stock market and Chechnya). Remember, this discussion (?) started with your objection to my observation that... Any scholar/thinker/scientist/etc. worth his salt retains a healthy skepticism about his own findings/discoveries/hypotheses, and has enough humility to recognize that his word will not be the last on the subject. ON THE SUBJECT! My subject is Chechnya, on which I am writing a book. I have never written a word here about it, except for a passage poking fun at Johnny-come-lately academics who discovered Chechnya only after the Russians started bombing it. Considering your animus against academics, you should have appreciated that passage. Have you ever read any professional article I have written ON THE SUBJECT? No? Well, I can assure you I hedge all my conclusions every whichaway, point out at every opportunity how difficult it is to assess the situation, just why it is difficult, etc., etc., etc. Yes, I do have the humility TO RECOGNIZE THAT MY WORD WILL NOT BE THE LAST ONE ON THE SUBJECT. But no, I never claimed claimed to be 'umble in general. I am no Uriah Heep. Neither are you, for that matter. <g> Sorry to hear about your arthritis. I have a touch of scleroderma myself (another autoimmune stinker), so i can really sympathize. Joan

To: Ilaine who wrote (35726)	4/24/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Blue, I humbly suggest that humility isn't the issue. The issue is putting your ideas out together with the evidence to support them and the willingness to approach issues with intellectual honesty. That means allowing the evidence to stand on its own and admitting when you are wrong. Anybody who pretends to scholarship and doesn't follow this approach is a charlatan. Scholarship never ever relies on blatant assertion as proof. And because of the intellectual rough and tumble you will seldom find scholars with fragile egos. If you follow my posts on finance you will discover that I lay my methods out in detail. That way if someone quibbles with what I did he will know why and the methodology itself is open to scrutiny. It was Burke's failure to engage in that kind of intellectual honesty that lead me to my poor opinion of him. It was not the fact that we disagreed. Here is an example of the laying out of methods: exchange2000.com TTFN, CTC