Reply #118: then perhaps you can direct me to one

[iverglas]

"I rest my case."

People don't generally rest their case before calling any evidence.

Well, not if they expect anybody to pay attention to them ...


What a huge heaping helping of diversionary grooming this thread has amounted to.

If there was something contentious in the article quoted in the initial post, I have yet to learn what it was.

Mary and I have had some experience -- some of it in joint efforts -- in debunking junk science in internet forums on various topics. We both find the subject an interesting one. We both know that the other goes to considerable lengths not to rely on junk science, and is careful not to be fooled by it into believing that something has been "proved", even if it looks like it would be to our advantage if it had.

Since we have rather different views on the subject of firearms control, I certainly wouldn't have assumed that Mary was posting what she posted as a way of "spanking" firearms control opponents (and I completely fail to see how it could have been interpreted as spanking firearms control proponents, for dog's sake).

But I suspect that this was what it looked like to some who seem to prefer jerking their knees to reflecting, and getting their own way to finding democratic solutions. And that this is what prompted all the diversionary grooming.

Ah well. The reses have loquitured ipsas again.

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