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Old 17-March-2005, 06:07 PM
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That is only one of the four arguments Argos posted.
"1. He used to get huffy on being questioned or criticized.
2. He resorted to ad hominem (sic) and authority arguments against his detractors.
3. He was adept of secrecy (he hid his work on optics for years)."

If a scientist gets “huffy”, insults those who insult him, and keeps his initial experiments a secret, then all of a sudden he is not a “scientist”?
Or not as good a scientist as he could be otherwise. At least, that's what I think Argos was saying (at least initially).
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