X-Message-Number: 29789
Subject: RE: [CN] Do I respond to dss? Hmm...well, maybe a small
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:05:35 -0400
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From: "Hare, Tim R" <>

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From: CryoNet F [mailto:] On Behalf Of David
Stodolsky
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 5:46 AM
To: CryoNet F
Subject: Re: [CN] Do I respond to dss? Hmm...well, maybe a small
posting. ...

On 25 Aug 2007, at 18:15,  wrote:

> Thanks for sharing, David  Stodolski.

If you had the training of a research scientist, you would be less  
likely to make mistakes like this. ;-)
(i =/= y)

[TRH: Tolerate the exchange (I >> Y).  With your training you must have
*some* appreciation for the evolution of words/languages via this sort
of transcription error.]

As Niels Bohr commented: "Prediction is very difficult, especially  
about the future"

[TRH: Your paper tiger just turned on you: appeal to a better authority,
as this in fact *supports* Rudi's case.]

For anyone but a person doing research in cryobiology

[TRH: Is your degree in cryobiology?  No?  Then for anyone not doing
research in this field, to defend *alternatives* to Rudi's assertion,
even vague skepticism, is "to be hoist by one's own petard".  It *is* in
cryobiology?  Ah, well, then stop posting on such a wide range of other
topics, as you're not an acknowledged expert in these areas.]

to make predictions about reversible suspended animation 

[TRH: "Reversible suspended animation"?  Your position would be stronger
if you didn't muddy the waters
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation] and referred to it as
re-animation. Given the rigor you suggest we all adhere to, why the lack
of precision? ]

merely shows an arrogant 

[TRH: Arrogant? You're projecting...(see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection]

disregard for the complexities of the science.

[TRH: You're undercutting your own argument again.  It is, as you've
convinced us all, I'm sure, by quoting Bohr, an appreciation for the
complexities that affords the latitude for a wide range of estimates.]


dss

David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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