On Jan 10, 7:05*am, p.clar...[at]gmail.com wrote:
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The Earth isn't ? Then I wonder what I fell off of at the New
Years Eve party.

On Jan 9, 9:50 am, "otisbr...[at]pa.net" <otisbr...[at]pa.net> wrote:
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except you've got your analogies all reversed.

there is quite a bit of evidence that minus lenses have no influence
on the development of refractive error in human eyes (not animals --
don't start dragging animal data into the discussion again in order to
rescue yourself).

likewise there is quite a bit of evidence that plus lenses have no
beneficial effect on refractive error development in humans, and in
fact can induce diplopia in some people as you well know.

but here is the most relevant analogy. there still to this day is a
group of people who believe that the earth is flat. no matter how
much data scientists produce to clearly prove that the earth is round
these idiots STILL think its flat and refuse to consider anything
else.

Off your meds again, Dear Boy?

It's rather difficult to imagine, one as shamed and ridiculed as you
(Dr. David Granet's post) would really want to start down this path
again......

<otisbrown[at]pa.net> wrote

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Shoes cause macular degeneration and cataracts. That's a second-opinion too.

But you're still wearing shoes.

-MT

The minus lens "works" in five minutes -- in my office.

Therefore everyone who has a different judgment than my office-opinion
-- must be wrong.

Ooops, there is that intellectual solid rock again.

Just my second-opinion.

Otis





On Jan 9, 9:45*am, "Mike Tyner" <mty...[at]mindspring.com> wrote:
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<otisbrown[at]pa.net> wrote

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OF COURSE YOU'RE RIGHT!

Continents drift, therefore shoes cause macular degeneration.

-MT

On Jan 9, 9:41*am, "otisbr...[at]pa.net" <otisbr...[at]pa.net> wrote:

Subject: The opinion of Association of Petroleum-Geologists Society

In his work, Wegener presented a large amount of circumstantial
evidence in support of continental drift, but he was unable to come
up with a convincing mechanism.

Thus, while his ideas attracted a few early supporters such as
Alexander Du Toit from South Africa and Arthur Holmes in England, the
hypothesis was generally met with skepticism.

The one American edition of Wegener's work, published in 1924, was
received so poorly that the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists organized a symposium specifically in opposition to the
continental drift hypothesis.

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Their theory was that continents could not plow through solid
rock.

But the "solid rock" was their frozen brains.
And no new concept could plow through that!

Q. E. D.


Also its opponents could, as did the Leipziger geologist Franz
Kossmat, argue that the oceanic crust was too firm for the
continents "simply to plow through". By the 1930's, Wegener's
geological work was almost universally dismissed by the scientific
community and remained obscure for some thirty years.

In the 1950s and 1960s, several developments in geology, notably the
discoveries of seafloor spreading and Wadati-Benioff zones, led to
the rapid resurrection of the continental drift hypothesis and its
direct descendant, the theory of plate tectonics.

Alfred Wegener was quickly recognized as a founding father of one of
the major scientific revolutions of the 20th century.

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What took so long???

Otis

Subject: The opinion of Association of Petroleum-Geologists Society

In his work, Wegener presented a large amount of circumstantial
evidence in support of continental drift, but he was unable to come
up with a convincing mechanism.

Thus, while his ideas attracted a few early supporters such as
Alexander Du Toit from South Africa and Arthur Holmes in England, the
hypothesis was generally met with skepticism.

The one American edition of Wegener's work, published in 1924, was
received so poorly that the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists organized a symposium specifically in opposition to the
continental drift hypothesis.

=============================================

Their theory was that continents could not plow through solid
rock.

But the "solid rock" what their frozen brains.

Q. E. D.