ERRORS in rebuttal to "Pandora's Promise"

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34. NOT AT ALL

kristopher,

NOT at ALL - we are left with the conclusions of someone who MISUNDERSTANDS the conclusions of MIT and NNSA.

Evidently, you still don't understand that NNSA itself does NOT have scientists; but is the administrative agency that oversees the scientists at the NNSA defense national labs; which are Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia. Any SCIENTIFIC conclusions of NNSA can be traced to one of the above labs.

We know what the Lab that did the study on the IFR; which was Lawrence Livermore; has to say.

So why is there a question?

There's a question due to the MISUNDERSTANDING and LACK of KNOWLEDGE in the field by someone WITHOUT any technical training or credentials for same.

It's as if we had someone who did NOT go to medical school, and does NOT have the degree "M.D." for "Medical Doctor" after his / her name. This same non-doctor isn't even schooled in University level biology or pre-medical studies. In fact, this person didn't even take science in high school.

Yet - this UN-DEGREED, MEDICALLY-ILLITERATE person has read a highly technical paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, and has NOT understood it; due the the fact that he / she is totally OBLIVIOUS to the medical principles, and probably also the medical vocabulary. In short; this person doesn't have even the most basic prerequisites required for understanding the medical paper.

However, this person can't admit to being medically inept; and takes his / her EXTREMELY LIMITED knowledge and MISINTERPRETS the medical paper. I mean how can someone without medical school training understand highly technical medical papers?

Then he / she proceeds to ARGUE the matter with a Professor of Medicine from the Mayo Clinic who is one of the world-acknowledged experts in the field.

It would be like someone that can't even understand something as simple as the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which is taught in high school physics class; attempting to understand post-graduate nuclear physics. If you can't understand the simple stuff; how can one understand the more complex.

It really is sad to see someone vainly attempting to excel beyond their mental limits.

How sad; how pitiful. Pride goeth before a fall is the maxim.

The issue is settle among all those with the intellect to understand the issue.

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

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