Re: Miroslav Hill responds

From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 19 Dec 2005 - 09:02:35 GMT

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    At 20:49 14/12/2005, Dace wrote:

    >Hill's experiment could be replicated a thousand times in a thousand
    >different laboratories, and still you would deny the results, as they don't
    >conform to your predetermined beliefs and therefore, by definition, cannot
    >be true. This is not science but dogmatism.

    This shows how much you misjudge me (and indeed scientists as a whole). If Hill's result could be replicated by only a handful of laboratories, then I'd be happy to accept it as demonstrated. Please let me know when that has happened.

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