tom sent this to me when I believe he wanted to inform the group as a whole.
He offers a counterpoint to the Utne Reader article circulated recently.

Kelly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Fowle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Kelly Pierce" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Hang Up and Listen


> Note that none of the scientists sighted here are biologists, or
> physiologists.
> We have a failed doctor, and medical doctors are not trained scientists!
> and the theory of a physist.
> And a bunch of paranoid non-scientists who have such good lives that they
> can't find anything else to worry about.
>
> Just like people who insist on drinking bottled water because they're
> afraid of a little chlorine.
>
> The single answer to all this ignorance and psychobabble is the
> inverse square law.
>
> the power in any radio frequency or magnetic field goes down as the square
> of the distance from the source.
>
> the curse of science is people publishing bad science and unproven
> theories
> before they go through the pier review process.  It's also scientists,
> good and
> bad, working in areas in which they have no background.  E.G. Crick
> in sociology and Shockley, The nobel price physist who tried
> to prove that black people were inferior because he didn't know anything
> about statistics.
>
> The attempt to educate Americans about critical thinking is a
> dismal failure, and this kind of paranoid drivvel proves it.
>
> Not that one can trust government, particularly the current one.
>
> Tom Fowle
>
>


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