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Thread #152434   Message #3585815
Posted By: sciencegeek
21-Dec-13 - 08:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: So who's signed up for Obamacare?
Subject: RE: BS: So who's signed up for Obamacare?
personal attacks are a tactic to divert attention from the real issue at hand... get your opponent involved in a name calling or other pissing match. that is NOT how the scientific method works... you present your argument and the data you have collected - ALL the data, not just a few cherry-picked points that you hope will support your predrawn conclusion. Then others are free to try to replicate your results and see if they do in fact support your premise.

As for Tesla, he was a brilliant man who developed a number of inventions - mainly dealing with electricity and had wide ranging interests. He also had a long standing feud with his former employer - Thomas Edison. Were he alive today, he would be quite chagrined that his opposition to Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved to be incorrect.

However, I fail to see what the relationship is to be found between Tesla - who hated doctors and refused any and all medical treatment, even after a serious auto accident- has to do with the Affordable Care Act and what needs to be done to improve it so that ALL Americans can have access to medical treatment and preventive health care.

It must hark back to the Big Lie propaganda tactics:
never allow the public to cool off;
never admit a fault or wrong;
never concede that there may be some good in your enemy;
never leave room for alternatives;
never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong;
people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one;
and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

I think "never allow the public time to cool off" is the one we have here... by using insults & slurs. I keep telling Don that this is an itch best left unscratched.