refutations

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed 04 Dec 2002 - 15:34:52 GMT

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    On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 02:12 , Ray Recchia wrote:

    > Much as I hesitate to respond to this post, as a point of
    > clarification, Gatherer's last word on Sheldrake referred to the theory
    > as an elaborate delusion comparable to Velikovsky's 'Worlds in
    > Collision'

    Exactly. Both of them, Sheldrake and Velikovsky, are _not even wrong_, but so distanced from observable facts as to be clearly delusional. It is for this reason that the scientific establishment's 'refutation of holistic biology' is a senseless hope adopted by the apologetic.

    - Wade

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