Re: The Anti Science Art Of Evasion



"Malcolm" regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:-

> > EK:-
> > But we also we would not wish him to report that we suffer crackpots
> > gladly.

> M:-
> That is a point. Politeness doesn't mean agreeing with an argument you
in
> fact disagree with, but in registering that disagreement with
sensitivity.
> It does help if the other person shows the same courtesy.

JE:-
Politeness requires an absence of blatant evasion. When dialog is
derailed simply because somebody flatly refuses to answer a critical
question after what may be days, months or even years of discussion,
then politeness will be discarded by NECESSITY. The simple fact that EK
sees fit to freely employ a nonsensical derogatory term like "crackpots"
within a scientific discourse where it appears only Edser argues against
such hopeless misuse, verifies that Edser _empirically_ supports a
"polite" discourse but EK does not.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia
edser@xxxxxxxxxx




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