bobgrumman@nut-n-but.net wrote:
> One huge difference between Freud and Looney is that Freud was
> inventing answers to questions not effectively answered whereas Looney
> was inventing answers to a question long effectively enough answered
> to satisfy everyone in the field that further answers were
> unnecessary. Same difference exists between Wegener and Looney--but
> another exists there, too--that Wegener was vindicated.
/Part/ of his theory was vindicated, by scientists who bumped into it
while working in an unrelated area. Much of it remains nonsense.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Though a Rothschild you may be
In your own capacity,
As a Company you've come to utter sorrow--
But the Liquidators say,
'Never mind--you needn't pay,'
So you start another company to-morrow!"
-- Sir William S. Gilbert. "Utopia Limited"