Re: Wielding (a double-edged) Occam's Razor

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LJ — 5/15/2002 9:35:14 AM (archived)

Alex writes: However, as Steve Squyres, PI for the 2003 MER/Athena Mission, once said, "Four maybes [the McKay et al. lines of evidence] do not equal 'yes.'"

LJ replies: Conversely, four maybe-nots do not equal "no".

As you and most others here have said, "we gotta go look!"

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Resolution of a Big Argument About Tiny Magnetic Minerals in Martian Meteorite (con't) - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/15/2002 4:39:20 PM
- Re: Resolution of a Big Argument About Tiny Magnetic Minerals in Martian Meteorite (con't) - Robert Clark - 5/15/2002 7:59:08 PM
  - Re: Resolution of a Big Argument About Tiny Magnetic Minerals in Martian Meteorite (con't) - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/15/2002 8:05:59 AM
    - Re: Resolution of a Big Argument About Tiny Magnetic Minerals in Martian Meteorite (con't) - Robert Clark - 5/15/2002 8:35:11 AM
      - Re: Resolution of a Big Argument About Tiny Magnetic Minerals in Martian Meteorite (con't) - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/15/2002 8:41:31 AM
        
        Re: Resolution of a Big Argument About Tiny Magnetic Minerals in Martian Meteorite (con't) - Robert Clark - 5/15/2002 1:31:52 PM
        
        Only the "true believers" in McKay et al. subscribe to this view... - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/15/2002 1:50:13 PM
        
        Re: Only the true believers ... - Robert Clark - 5/16/2002 7:57:16 PM
        
        Robert "Gandhi" Clark - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/16/2002 5:06:50 PM
- Occam's Razor - LJ - 5/15/2002 7:28:29 PM
  - Wielding (a double-edged) Occam's Razor - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/15/2002 8:00:25 AM
    - Re: Wielding (a double-edged) Occam's Razor - LJ - 5/15/2002 9:35:14 AM
- "Admittedly, Trieman is a sceptic"... - Nick Hoffman - 5/15/2002 10:21:22 AM
  - The way it happened - E.P. Grondine - 5/16/2002 8:48:31 AM
  - Re: ALH84001. - Robert Clark - 5/15/2002 1:26:32 PM
    - I take it that you have not attended any of the science meetings - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/15/2002 1:52:43 PM
      - Re: I take it that you have not attended any of the science meetings - Robert Clark - 5/16/2002 7:11:16 PM
        
        Re: I take it that you have not attended any of the science meetings - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/16/2002 5:44:24 PM
  - Restrained debate - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/15/2002 10:37:14 AM
    - Re: Restrained debate - Nick Hoffman - 5/15/2002 6:11:53 PM

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