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Skriven 2004-11-29 21:35:00 av Jim McGinn (1:278/230)
Ärende: Re: Holowness of SBE
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Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote in message
news:<coebn2$1m04$1@darwin.ediacara.org>...
> Jim McGinn <jimmcginn@yahoo.com> wrote or quoted:
> 
> > I made an offer of 10 thousand dollars to anybody 
> > that can demonstrate the validity of Hamilton's 
> > nonsense.
> 
> A cash offer for demonstrating nonsense?  It sounds at least
> amusing.  Did you get as far as appointing an arbitrator?
> 
> > > That doesn't mean that Jim and John are wrong - that is 
> > > for the reader to decide - but it does mean that they have had plenty of 
> > > opportunity for making their views known.  So blaming the continued 
> > > acceptance of Hamilton's rule on some fault in the peer-review process is

> > > clearly a red herring. Hamilton's rule is accepted because the majority 
> > > of scientists who have taken a hard look at it think it has some 
> > > validity.
> > 
> > Some validity?  What does this supposedly mean?  
> > Either it is valid or it is invalid.  Sounds like 
> > nothing more than an excuse for vagueness.
> 
> It could be a reference to the fact that Hamilton's rule
> assumes that the relatedness of the actors is known to
> the participants - whereas in nature, that condition
> is rarely met exactly - and usually there is some measure
> of uncertainty which causes a mismatich between relatedness
> and percieved relatedness.

Nonsense piled atop nonsense does not become sensible as a result.

> 
> Green beards and linkage provide more wrinkles on Hamilton's rule.
> 
> Similarly, Newtonian physics "has some validity" - even though we
> now have a more accurate theory.

Jim
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