[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 5:06:19 AM UTC-5, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 12:14:40 AM UTC-5, Galen wrote: 
> > alanfe... at gmail.com <alanfe... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > > On Friday, December 31, 2021 at 6:17:24 AM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: 
> > >> Den 2021-12-31 kl. 11:43, skrev Simon Clubley: 
> > >>> On 2021-12-28, alanfe... at gmail.com <alanfe... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > >>>> On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 7:21:29 PM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> [...]
> > The trend on c.o.v. these days seems to be toward hypercriticality no 
> > matter what the specific subject.
> Yep. Probably in part because no one wants to be shown to be wrong and be greatly embarrassed and humiliated in public. There is then the inevitable consequence of wanting to save face. Hence the "hypercritically." 

Uh, make that, "hypercriticality." Sorry.
> 
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> And Richard Dawkins gives an example where some biologist spent half of his life studying some aspect of life that he thought did or didn't exist (sorry, I can't recall which or even what). Then some young biologist came on the scene and showed how totally wrong the old guy 
was. 

That should be "and showed _conclusively_ how totally wrong the old guy was."

> But I know a story first-hand where some poor unfortunate presenter showed a really awful PID plot, and secretly all the physicists in the room were mocking the presenters. 

Yes, somehow it was a duo giving the talk. Both were standing up at the front. I think. We're talking 1980s here!

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> 
> Alan