Re: Explaining away, how long?

From: Justin (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 04/21/05 

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:31:48 +0000 (UTC)

In sci.math jstevh@msn.com wrote:

: I know your capacity for lying and I know their capacity for lying.

Name one thing I lied about.

: You have a social agenda, which taints your posts.

You may not recall my challenge to you, so here it is again:

I am a non-tenured lecturer at a university. I am not up for tenure nor
do I wish to obtain it. I teach long hours for decent pay, but I'm not
here for the money - I can make far more in software design to be honest.

I would only have to *gain* from being in support of fantastic
revolutionary mathematical ideas.

Please explain to me why I would not bother to do so. What's my agenda?

: Now it's not hard to explain, but I think it's a telling point to leave
: it at that for those people who *DO* believe.

Name one such person. Just one.

: Going back to the political analogy, some people believe Fox News no
: matter what, and if you have easy ways to check and see that they're
: wrong, you realize that it doesn't matter to go to the trouble of
: explaining, as they believe Fox News, no matter what.

Your analogy is unsound as Fox news is not promoting facts that the
individual viewer can personally check.

Justin

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