[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Patrick Coskren]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:
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> On 2007-Dec-04, at 18:35, Patrick Coskren wrote:
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>> [1] And a science fiction author, no less!
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> Yeah, like, is that good or bad? I remember Chrichton being  
> dismissed for being one too. :-)

It's not really good or bad, but in this case it may indicate a  
certain propensity for speculation.

In Crighton's case, the problem was that he had no idea what he was  
talking about, but he had a huge platform to disseminate his  
misinformation from.  The problem wasn't so much "science fiction  
author" as "widely popular fiction author", which for some reason  
gave him credibility in certain circles that he didn't deserve.

-Patrick