Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> > The worst thing which can happen to science is when it
> > becomes *dogma*.
>
> Ah, yes. While this is perfectly true, it's also the all
> too familiar song of the crackpot.
>

I've just lost count of the times you've **insulted** me, Mr Scott.

> Obviously you have to believe that in order to justify
> yourself. Obviously also you have no idea of the real state
> of the field and how much active scholarly disagreement
> there is even within its mainstream. And obviously you have
> no idea how ridiculously arrogant your statement is. Anyone
> with a functioning bullshit meter would be legitimately
> skeptical of your qualifications on the basis of that
> assertion alone.
>

Sorry, but you're mistaken.

> I don't expect to have one: you're not doing science.
>
> > Neither are you. You stand on dogma.
>
> Ah, yes. Anyone who strongly disagrees with you must be
> blindly following dogma; he couldn't possibly find your
> ideas intellectually unsatisfying and poorly supported.
> This is another typical article of faith of the crackpot --
> unsurprisingly, since it's so obviously comforting.
>

One more insult! I'm still expecting for you to refute anything I said.