Re: [UUPoly-L] Love, Science & Other Subjects

[WABaldwin@aol.com]

I'll take credit for the initial remarks, with the carets beside them --  the 
rest are someone else's.
 
ie -- You're quoting 2 different people here!
 
Bill
 
In a message dated 9/30/2008 11:25:15 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
catdeville@cox.net writes:

>  Well, you know...we aren't running a scientific journal here...I don't
>  think
> we need citations for every assertion we make.

Except  when you're challenging everyone else's assumptions and assertions on
the  basis that they can't be "proven" and supporting your arguments with
claims  that they are backed up by "studies". 

If you're going to make a claim  which you state are backed up by studies,
and you're taking the position of  a "scientific skeptic" on things, then,
yes, I expect citations.   Otherwise, your claim that your assertions are
backed up by "studies" is  just as valid as the "anecdotal" claims that you
seem to disdain.  

On the one hand you suggest that opinions, assertions and assumptions  not
backed up by "proof" are "weak", and on the other you feel that we  don't
need citations.  You can't have it both  ways.


 



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