Re: [Phys-L] just for fun

["Anthony Lapinski" <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org>]

Yes, very uncalled for. Comments like this happen often on this list,
yet nobody seems to do anything about it. Who's in charge?

As I posted a few weeks ago:

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Phys-L@Phys-L.org writes:
> I actually agree with Brian -- I over-reacted to what I considered the 
> patronizing tone of John Clement's email. The "Know-It-All" was uncalled 
> for. Even "the-pony-rider" was a bit over the top. My apology.
>
> But the rest of my message stands. Here are a few basic links in 
> response to John Mallinckrodt's request for more information about cases 
> of recent failed scientific consensus. Primary sources can be followed 
> from there as needed.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09tier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
>
> http://www.csicop.org/si/show/science_and_pseudoscience_in_adult_nutrition_research_and_practice/
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16epidemiology-t.html?_r=2&sq=Taubes%20health%20September%2016&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print
>
> Ze'ev
>
> On 12/31/2013 5:30 PM, brian whatcott wrote:
> > On 12/31/2013 1:07 PM, Ze'ev Wurman wrote:
> > > It was a perfectly nice thread until John "Know-It-All" Clement chose 
> > > to climb on his beloved wooden pony yet again.
> > /snip/
> >
> >
> > I must have been hanging out on this list since the 20th century - but 
> > I cannot recall such a casual name calling episode.      So I took a 
> > look at the perpetrator's bio, and it seems quite respectable - you 
> > might say distinguished by his government service to a previous 
> > administration. A programmer (though this tag is out of fashion any 
> > more)  who is also active in state debates concerning educational 
> > matters.
> >
> >
> > Clements has been a consistent voice for evidence based approaches to 
> > teaching for years.      Not sure yet what consistent theme Wurman 
> > embraces - give it another ten years?
> >
> > Brian Whatcott    Altus OK
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