On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:54:05PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Absence of evidence is not justification for inventing evidence. If > you can't prove something, that doesn't mean you should lower the > standards for proof, it means that you can't prove it.
Just because you can't prove something doesn't mean that you can't work with what's available. I can think of countless examples in biology where people go on working assumptions because something isn't proven. I'm sure you can too. Your excuse is amazingly flimsy. > The anecdote presented was grossly mischaracterised and not an example > of what it claimed to be. There are other anecdotes. See Manoj's mail with the log in it, or the various logs at http://www.p12n.org/misc/sexism/. Compounded evidence certaintly lends weight to a hypothesis. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
