Re: virus: pachydermal memorials

Kristee (kjseelna@students.wisc.edu)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:18:05 -0600


Prof. Tim,
Okay, it may have been a stretch for me to use 'coinkydink' (the
word you can never spell right twice on the first try) with a serious
subject, but, "coinkydinkly"??? You go too far! =)

>
>It "Appeared" that that you offended and upset by the acedmic use of a
>term for
>folly that had it's root in a racial slur. As to what IS...

Okay, I calmly implore you to read the long post regarding my reply to that...

My issue is with Susan McCarthy...what's wrong with her...?

>"Scientists speak of committing anthropomorphism as if it were a sin. And
>to accuse a scientist of being >anthropomorphic is very serious indeed. We
>think that many scientists bend much too far over backward >to avoid this
>sin."

Has this woman gone cuckoo for coco-puffs???
Anyhow, I thought that was funny, or coinkydinkcal you could say,
considering all the effort and thought put into proving that sin doesn't
exist, and the post I just wrote about it today. I'd like to know the
logic of carrying over religious dogma (like conceptual sin) over to a
scientific field. Am I anthropomorphic- not I! "Oh, the Horror! The
Horror!"
Mentioning sin and science together in the same sentence should be a sin!!!

*evil laugh*
~kjs