A few guidelines for those who wish to see their comments published on this blog; silent readers need not bother with the following.
- Your comment must betoken that you have carefully read, and thoroughly understood both the post and whatever previous comments you might refer to. It must also have an internal logical coherence.
- Factoids, urban legends, factual errors or misrepresentations are not accepted
- Opposition to accepted scientific theories is scowled upon. Specifically, flat-earthers, still-earthers (deniers of plate tectonics), creationists, deniers of global warming and of overpopulation and those who think divine beings check out on how people have sex need not submit.
- The common rhetoric device which a learned colleague of mine has termed "pseudo-dementia" is a sure guarantee of rejection; for example, somebody who answers the line "Pharmaceutical companies cannot be relied upon to do a damned thing" with
Where exactly did you think that chemotherapy, [...] came from? I guess they must have just magically appeared in the pharmacopia while the pharmaceutical companies were sitting around not doing a "damned thing."
stands no chance. Accepting this kind of post ends up in sterile picking on incoherence followed by a further deluge of it.
- PP's and RR's are particularly unwelcome; PP's are Profit Prophets, those who base all their logic on "it makes money, therefore it shouldn't be opposed". RR's are Raving Republicans, people who cannot refrain from expressing their appreciation of every single side of the Bush administration, and are unable to do so in less than 500 words. No dialogue is possible between these two amply intersecting categories and civilised society, and I fancy this blog belongs to the latter.
Other posts are welcome as long as they are within reason; I also commit to publish everything published by other sciencebloggers, as I do not wish to judge the work of my peers. As a final note, nobody will be censored for his opinions, as long as facts and reason support them; however, I unfortunately don't have time for flame wars anymore. I'll let you all know when I do.
Dr. X., former researcher, currently a corporate engineering drone, part-time professional writer, long-time sceptic.
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Uh... I was going to comment but #3 definately rules me out.
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Posted by: s. zeilenga | August 14, 2006 05:35 PM