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From: bernie@watarts.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ansitar on net.sources
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Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 10:15:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 10:15:22 1983
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Simple; they didn't test the theory.
  Drinking various substances mixed with water may lead you to *suspect* that
water is an intoxicant.  (In science, we call this "forming a theory").  The
next step in the scientific method is to *test* that theory; in the case of
the intoxicant example, you would drink a glass of water and examine the
effects.  You would then come to the conclusion that your theory was wrong,
and form a new theory (for example, that the various things you'd been mixing
with the water were intoxicants).  You would then test this new theory, and
find it (pardon the pun!) held water.
  Thus the scientific method *does* work, when intelligent people use it
properly.
				--Bernie Roehl
				...decvax!watmath!watarts!bernie