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Old 13-August-2007, 09:25 PM
John Mendenhall John Mendenhall is offline
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Default Ah, You've Touched a Nerve

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Originally Posted by Bancor View Post

But, as you turned it to merit, I would like to ask if you do think that a layman has to content himself with this assertive statements about quasars (see above previous post):

Or may any issue on quasars be posed only on the right side?
Yes, the popular press, and the popular scientific press also, present too much as absolutes when they should be qualifying. And they go to the other extreme also, and qualify where they shouldn't. The K-T impact is a fine example. Boom, done. And paleontologists as good as Bakker go hand waving about disease and climate. Certainly one of my pet peeves.