[MD] SOM's defect comes home to roost

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Logical fallacy: False analogy. 



On 3 Dec 2009 at 12:15, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [Platt]
> Wry smiling is appropriate...
> 
> [Arlo]
> Wow. Never has one post threaded together so many squawking points so 
> succinctly. As for "the intellectual integrity of the entire 
> scientific edifice" being threatened, well, only in the minds of 
> right-wing anti-intellectuals for whom it was already The Great 
> Enemy. I mean, this would be like saying the "entire edifice of 
> Christianity's integrity is abolished" when Jimmy Swaggart got busted 
> doing coke with a whore. Or the "intellectual integrity of the 
> Republican party" was threatened when Larry Craig got busted trying 
> to arrange a homosexual bang in an airport bathroom. I'd say its 
> grossly out of proportion, but again, for those who base their 
> ideology on anti-intellectualism, its expected.
> 
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