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This site is named for the famous statement of US Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver from Missouri : "I`m from Missouri -- you'll have to show me." This site is dedicated to skepticism of official dogma in all subjects. Just-so stories are not accepted here. This is a site where controversial subjects such as evolution theory and the Holocaust may be freely debated.

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My biggest motivation for creating my own blogs was to avoid the arbitrary censorship practiced by other blogs and various other Internet forums. Censorship will be avoided in my blogs -- there will be no deletion of comments, no closing of comment threads, no holding up of comments for moderation, and no commenter registration hassles. Comments containing nothing but insults and/or ad hominem attacks are discouraged. My non-response to a particular comment should not be interpreted as agreement, approval, or inability to answer.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Self-styled "experts"

It is often charged that I am unqualified to discuss various subjects -- e.g., coevolution and the law -- because I have no special training in those subjects and have not had papers in those subjects published in peer-reviewed journals. Yet the same people making these charges don't have any special qualifications either, yet they claim that they are refuting my ideas. They are a bunch of conceited ignoramuses.

posted by Larry Fafarman | 7/11/2009 10:14:00 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous dootland said...

A common tactic to eliminate someone from the forum of ideas is by declaring that person ineligible to contribute by stating:

--your position has not been approved by a peer reviewed publication therefore your position is invalid

--you do not have a degree in the subject therefore you are unqualified to discuss the subject

These are flawed arguments because truth does not require someone to have a diploma to be discovered (although it can help in many cases) niether does truth need approval to be true.

Sunday, July 12, 2009 7:47:00 AM  

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