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Hmmm…if it had not been for Sam2, who I guess had, like me, already posted as Sam, this would not have registered:

warren joseph :

To Sam –

Yep, you cite two lines out of 28 that I wrote as if that were my statement in its entirety. It seems that you’re intimidated by references to things like academic credentials and intelligence, which, I’m guessing, probably has something to do with your own insecurities about your appalling lack of such things.

The rest of your post was obviously intended for Sam 2.

As for the part directed at me: No, I was ridiculing you and your premise and, for your entire post, which was a paen to the study people and how wonderful they are because of who they are – argument from creditials and authority, without directing any comments to the substance of any criticisms of their study.

Your “substantive” argument was: we medical students at Johns Hopkins are so really very very very smart, anybody that believes other than we do is stupid, and if you don’t believe we are so very very smart, here are our SAT and MCAT scores.

Where I come from, even really really smart people can make really really stupid mistakes, in their fields of expertise, and simple mistakes at that. And credentials do not mean those experts do not make stupid mistakes.

I might be intimidated by intelligence, but test scores are no indication of an intelligence worth being intimidated by.