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All,
I guess the pandemic is really getting to us. Let's start acting like professional scientists and give up this thread. Doesn't this list have a moderator? I know the vertpaleo list used to...
Wayne
From: dinosaur-l-request@mymaillists.usc.edu <dinosaur-l-request@mymaillists.usc.edu> on behalf of Thomas Richard Holtz <tholtz@umd.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 7:30 PM
To: Mike Habib <biologyinmotion@gmail.com>
Cc: dinosaur-l@mymaillists.usc.edu <dinosaur-l@mymaillists.usc.edu>
Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Prehistoric Road Trip,Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts
And something just occurred to me...
If they only saw episode one, why is this thread named after episode 3??
Episode 1: Welcome to Fossil Country
Episode 2: We Dig Dinosaurs
Episode 3: Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Creatures
> On Jul 20, 2020, at 3:09 PM, aviva <aviva@gmx.us> wrote:
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> On 7/20/20 1:41 PM, Mike Habib wrote:
>> Just to clarify… are you honestly aggrieved that there were too many paleontologists in a paleontology documentary?
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> I think what I said was clear, and not what you wrote. We are getting
> deep into dishonest propositions now. How are you going to defend the
> science from creationists if folks behave like this when confronted with
> a simple factual complaint about the purpose and characterization of a
> documentary when the facts are already admitted to?
Well, that depends. Are you referring to angry, irrational, aggressive creationists who make no sense at all and have no basis for their arguments in the first place? In those cases, I bait them with mockeries of their own pathetic complaints, phrased as questions,
and watch them dig themselves into even deeper holes than they started.
But it’s a case by case scenario.
—MBH
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