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Talk:Scientific controversy over the cause of AIDS (view source)
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:::::So if I were to field a study dealing with astrophysics and the origins of the universe (please keep in mind I'm a registered nurse and have no formal education in either field), you wouldn't step back and question it? [[User:JLauttamus|Jeffrey W. Lauttamus]][[User_talk:JLauttamus|<sub>Discussion</sub>]] 15:01, 7 January 2009 (EST)
:::::So if I were to field a study dealing with astrophysics and the origins of the universe (please keep in mind I'm a registered nurse and have no formal education in either field), you wouldn't step back and question it? [[User:JLauttamus|Jeffrey W. Lauttamus]][[User_talk:JLauttamus|<sub>Discussion</sub>]] 15:01, 7 January 2009 (EST)
::::::Well, [[Einstein]] had very little education in his topic of interest. Only an undergraduate degree. Einstein is a good case for how too much respect for hierarcies and bureacratic/instituational norms can cloud our judgements. Like many trained Ph.D., Bauer is compotent enough to evaluate this sort of work. It's a logical fallacy (ad hominem) to say that is not.--[[User:RickD|RickD]] 15:06, 7 January 2009 (EST)
::::::Well, [[Einstein]] had very little education in his topic of interest. Only an undergraduate degree. Einstein is a good case for how too much respect for hierarcies and bureacratic/instituational norms can cloud our judgements. Like many trained Ph.D., Bauer is compotent enough to evaluate this sort of work. It's a logical fallacy (ad hominem) to say that is not.--[[User:RickD|RickD]] 15:06, 7 January 2009 (EST)
:::::::Einstein studied physics, regardless of what degree he attained. He won a nobel prize for the photoelectric effect, and achieved a doctor's degree in 1905 (according to the Conservapedia Einstein article). It's not ad hominem to state that the man's speciality has nothing to do with AIDS, nor is it a logical fallacy. [[User:JLauttamus|Jeffrey W. Lauttamus]][[User_talk:JLauttamus|<sub>Discussion</sub>]] 15:13, 7 January 2009 (EST)