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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Purging Stoll and his kind
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 22:35:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 22:35:16 1985
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> [Walt Stoll, in response to Steve Dyer]
> There are four stages of societal response to the discovery of
> radically new concepts (in this order):     
>      #1  Ignore it and it will go away.
>      #2  Ridicule
>      #3  Attack 
>      #4  Total acceptance:  "Well, that's obvious!  We knew that all
>          the time!
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I humbly suggest:
	#5 A new newsgroup net.med.holistic
where Walt could let his "radical new concepts" flower fully
without sniping from us "slow learners".
(Please forgive me if this has been suggested before.  I haven't
been reading this newsgroup for too long.)
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan