X-Message-Number: 5063
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #5046 - #5052
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:50:03 -0700 (PDT)

Hi again!

I wish to thank Mike Darwin for his comment about my own quasidefense of his
observations. And his observations are stated much more clearly in his last 
message than in his first one.

In the land of science, observations should be king. Yes, sometimes they 
aren't. But that's OUR fault, not a defect of science. And I extend this 
belief (personally) to all kinds of phenomena: for instance, those who say 
that they have seen flying saucers, or ghosts. It's not that I believe that
they have seen flying saucers or ghosts, at all (in both cases I do not),
but that they are either lying (and will someday be caught out) or really
did see SOMETHING. And yes, we cannot investigate every reported observation,
but not for intellectual but for economic reasons. But we should still keep
firmly in mind that we have no explanation for many observations. Our
knowledge of how the world works remains quite incomplete.

			Best and long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson


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