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Old 03-March-2007, 01:14 AM
VanderL VanderL is offline
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Because ideas from outside the mainstream have a genuine value to science.
Sure, but not as a result of the BAUT ATM section.

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Who knows where the next great idea is going to come from? It won't always be scientists; although, they've got the training to understand why some ideas won't work. I'd never want to shut down ATM.
But in effect you are!

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And showing the process, from the initial concept to seeing how it compares against current evidence is very valuable.
Also true, but again it won't be on this forum.

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It doesn't mean the end of ATM,
Sure it does, just wait a few months.

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it just means the end, I hope, of true believers using BAUT to promote their theories endlessly.
And where are the peer-reviewed ATM ideas going to be discussed? That's where true scientific breakthroughs will come from. This "30 days rule" won't work, or rather, it will work, to stop any ATM discussions.

Cheers.