To: [email protected]
Sent: 4/6/2010 7:33:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time
Subj: Re: No YDR? An Apology to Dave Morrison
My choice of words betrayed my own inner biases, unfortunately.
On this occasion, my best wishes to NASA for continued Congressional
funding of manned space flight, that the work on the new Constellation
rockets and others will not be abandoned. Not sure how you and others at
NASA feel about this.
On the matters rather than words which offended you: Presumably, you will
concede that most of us, by life-long processes of internal conditioning,
act from prejudice nilly-willy, one issue which I try to analyze in my ’05
philosophy of science paper which I cited.
And if prejudiced, than false results may crop up, imperceptibly.
One thing I need to admit, I have not yet read your and co-authors’ paper,
which I hope to do soon.
Of course, it’s not a matter of replacing one adjective by another, but
that objecting to a factual scientific finding as being “unreasonable”
(rather than false) does not seem to be, well, “reasonable”..
Hermann