[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Stefano Mori]

On 2007-Aug-15, at 10:47, David Cake wrote:

>> If not then you're assuming that every criticism was from liars and
>> cheats.
>
> 	I've never assumed that all contributions are from liars and
> cheats - even at my most dismissive, I've said that there are shills
> AND cranks. And crank isn't always as dismissive as it sounds. Plenty
> of people can be respected researchers in their primary field, and
> cranks in another [1], or just get old and out of touch, or have deep
> and personal, but ultimately subjective and not rationally
> justifiable, reasons for holding the position they do (religion being
> the most common, obviously, but ideology and commitment to a cause
> play their part).


Curious. You accept that individuals can be severely biased by such a  
strong ideology that their their scientific opinion is rendered  
worthless, and meanwhile a large group of people are immune to ideology?

Stefano