Re: Poison, From the Far Right? (Rocket Fuel...)

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:12:53 GMT

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 02:05:17 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
greg@see-web-page.edu (Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>In article <a8udndO5K9BLX77fRVn-pQ@dls.net>,
>Paul F. Dietz <dietz@dls.net> wrote:
>>Greg Kuperberg wrote:
>>> It's the famous theory of the weak argument. Trial attorneys are deeply
>>> fearful of them; a weak argument in court is a much bigger setback than
>>> a strong argument from the other side. The only problem is that the
>>> theory is false. The world is full of people who make bad arguments
>>> for just about every position.
>>Oh, surely. The argument is heuristic, not some kind of ironclad proof.
>>But it's a very useful heuristic, particularly if one takes care to
>>sample from various sources.
>
>Actually it's evidence of brain rot caused by Usenet, IRC, and blogs.
>Out in the real world, there are debates that are not drowned out by
>losers and loudmouths. Or, if you have to use the Internet, you can
>concentrate on professional scholarship.

You're sounding like Dan Rather.

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