In article , Martin Brown writes:
On 12/05/2010 13:46, Quadibloc wrote:
On May 12, 2:58 am, Martin wrote:

This is not to say that a grain of salt should not be used even
for what the authorities say.

Appeals to authority should never be trusted unless the authority can
explain their reasoning. Even famous professors are sometimes wrong.

Stephen Hawking as a student famously shot down a paper presented at a
public lecture by Fred Hoyle who was at the time one of the most
prominent cosmologists when the orthodoxy was Steady State. History
shows that Hawking was right although Hoyle at the time was furious.

Of course, Hawking's arguments didn't boil down to "what you're
saying is hard for me to understand, so I don't believe it."

At least, that's how I'd bet.

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Michael F. Stemper
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