Re: psychoceramics: disagreement as validation

["Nikolai Kingsley" <fendre @ melbourne.net>]

> You can see this anytime John "End of Science" Horgan speaks.
> He claims that science is over because we've discovered everything
already.

this brings to mind the quote from the antiquated 19th century scientist
who claimed that `vehicles could not travel faster than 15 miles per hour,
since all the air would rush out the back of the vehicle and the driver
would suffocate.'

> He's a staff writer for Scientific American,

in which division, i wonder? i hope it's in the Getting The Page Numbers
Consecutive section.

> and in the recent issue he
> has taken up a new cause: that Freud was totally right all along.  

#include tank-girl quote about Freud

> I propose that we name this fallacy "Horganism" in his honor.

seconded! and i'm going to start using it in conversation, too.
nikolai