RE: virus: Book review

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Sat, 07 Jun 1997 10:45:16 -0600


At 07:22 AM 07/06/97 -0700, Grant Callaghan wrote:

>It always amazed my in my college days that so many professors went around
>saying that science is not a religion and then treating their opinions
>as if they were handed down directly from God. I wrote a paper disputing
>Noam Chomsky on language structure once and my professor acted as if
>I had blasphemed. I don't think he even read it. The subject was
>enough to reject it.

A claim to The Truth(tm) is a criticism often levelled at Science (yes,
even on this list) but I should hope it is obvious that it is the failing
of particular scientists, not Science.

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