Re: virus: The One or the Many? (was: META)
Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Thu, 16 Oct 97 16:43:19 -0400
>In my first post I was trying
>to decide if it would be better to study some kind of behavior that
>*matters* as opposed to studying something so inconsequential.
>
>I HATE JUNK SCIENCE. I see too many people try to study complex things
>without controls or elimination of variables. It just seemed to me that
>how this fad developed and persists in our culture might be
>interesting.
Ouch.
1. Streaking _matters_? Or are you saying that studying the
inconsequential is OK?
2. A fad is not a meme.
3. People have been streaking, in one form or another, for thousands of
years.
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