[Rhodes22-list] Global Warming - Who should bebelieved?(political)

[Michael D. Weisner]

Rummy,

While I may agree with your dislike for the distinguished Prof Deming, if 
these items are indeed facts (Wikipedia info is contributed by individuals 
and is not verified, for the most part), your attempt to refute the premise 
of the article via the fallacy "Ad Hominem" is not acceptible.  Even if you 
are able to discredit the individual making the statement, you have not 
established a viable argument to refute the statement.

I am off to investigate the links from Ron Lipton.

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY


From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com> Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:36 PM
>
> In a message dated 12/19/2007 3:17:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> mweisner at ebsmed.com writes:
>
> http://www.campusreportonline.net/main/articles.php?id=257_
>
>
> Facts, not inuendo:
>
> This guy has more than a few screws loose.
>
> Controversy
> Deming has made a number of statements about women that some have viewed
> controversial or offensive. In 1998, Deming wrote:
>
> "There is significant scientific evidence that sex-based differences in
> spatial and mathematical abilities may be biological in origin. For 
> example,  male
> rats do better in mazes than females. I concede it is possible that those
> female rats performed poorly because they were distressed by the lack of 
> proper
> role models, but somehow this seems implausible."_[8]_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deming#_note-7)
> Two years later, Deming wrote a letter criticizing _Yale University_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University)  student  Joni Kletter's 
> February 18,
> 2000 syndicated article on _gun control_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics)  published in  the _University 
> of  Oklahoma_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oklahoma) 's student 
> _newspaper_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper) , _The Oklahoma Daily_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oklahoma_Daily) .  He received a 
> reprimand from _Dean_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_(education))  of the College  of 
> Geoscience, John Snow, after 25 people
> filed formal complaints about his  response in which he stated,_[9]_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deming#_note-8)
> "I just want to point out that Kletter's 'easy access' to a vagina enables
> her to 'quickly and easily' have sex with 'as many random people' as she
> wants. Her possession of an unregistered vagina also equips her to work as 
> a
> prostitute and spread venereal diseases. Let's hope Kletter is as 
> responsible  with
> her equipment as most gun owners are with  theirs."
>
>
>
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