[pf] Obesity Epidemic Threatens Health In Exercise-Deprived Societies

by David MacClement

19 December 2000 20:14 UTC

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RE: [pf] 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
by David A
19 December 2000 16:15 UTC




prichter1@aol.com wrote:
> I'm challenging you because you seem to do the opposite: to 
> dismiss everything because you happen to disagree with something, 

I don't recall dismissing something because I don't believe in it -- 
I've taken care to give reasons, citations, etc.

> perhaps they don't have the credentials that you find to be 
> relevant. 

So what credentials do you find relevant, then? How do you decide 
whether something is credible or not? 

To me, if someone makes a gross error that I catch because I know the 
subject, then yes, that person loses some credibility. If he writes 
things that someone with much more apparent knowledge of the subject 
rejects, and rejects for reasons I can understand and at least partly 
check out for myself, then yes, that person loses credibility. Nathan B 
doesn't even give his credentials.... 

If someone came to you and said something about a subject you know a lot 
about, say, religion, and said something you knew to be incorrect, 
wouldn't you begin to question her credibility? Wouldn't you examine her 
next statement with just a little more skepticism? And if she then went 
on and made two more statements you knew to be incorrect, wouldn't you 
be even more skeptical of her fourth statement?

David