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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



In <57cfcv$q19@news.inforamp.net> dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
writes: 
>
>On Thu, 14 Nov 1996 08:06:36 -0700, mfriesel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>>
>>What continually amazes me is the number of Ashers and McCarthys who 
>>present themselves as experts at everything having to do with the 
>>environment and the economy, science, medicine and technology; and 
>>will do those trained in a given field the honor of defining their 
>>terms for them, will provide experts in a field with the correct 
>>interpretation of pertinent data, and tell them what information is 
>>pertinent and what is not as well. 
> 
>It is of course a lie and a libel to say that Asher or McCarthy
>"present themselves as experts on everything having to do with
>environment and the economy."
> 
>But then it doesn't take an expert in anything, only a certain amount
>of logic and ordinary factual knowledge, to poke holes in the drone
>and moan of the environmental catastrophists.

Accepting the basic premises of a discipline is not a 
precondition for passing critical judgment on it.
It does not take an astrologist to discard astrological
forecasts as worthless. On the contrary, it takes
a non-astrologist. 



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