On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 04:20:24 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote:
On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 3:56:11 AM UTC-6, Paul Schlyter
wrote:
You could stop posting on Usenet for awhile, that would give you
time for
Wikipedia. So if you think you don't have time for Wikipedia,
why do you
have time to hang around here?

It's entertainment. Besides, I learn some new things here. I
wouldn't
learn anything by what you suggest.

Wrong! You'll learn more than you realize by actually looking upp
support for your claims. Who knows, you might even find good reasons
for changing your mind. Only someone who believes himself to be
infallible would argue like you.


If it wasn't unreliable, why did even the author himself think
the
experiment needed to be repeated? Not just once, but many times...

For scientific acceptability, of course. The point is that it
hasn't been
repeated and, therefore, hasn't been refuted.

Likewise, you won't find studies trying to find out if the Earth is
flat or not. Should we therefore conclude that the claim "the Earth
is not flat" is unproved?