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From: jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Lenski experiments: an important correction
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 08:38:06 -0400
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On Sat, 11 May 2024 11:54:38 +0200, Arkalen <arkalen@proton.me> wrote:

>On 11/05/2024 11:27, jillery wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 May 2024 23:22:32 +0100, Ernest Major
>> <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 10/05/2024 23:00, Arkalen wrote:
>>>> On 10/05/2024 23:05, Ernest Major wrote:
>>>>> On 10/05/2024 21:31, Arkalen wrote:
>>>>>> I recently found out that Richard Lenski of the eponymous =
long-term
>>>>>> E.coli evolution experiment had a blog, and in it I found a
>>>>>> correction I thought was relevant to the way those experiments are
>>>>>> typically invoked as evidence in evolution/creationism debates:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =
https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/a-small-correction/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope we'll all have the integrity to take this new information =
into
>>>>>> account properly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you look at the date? I suspect it's an April Fool. (Or did you
>>>>> identify it as an April Fool, and ran with it?)
>>>>
>>>> I did eventually figure it out but I'm embarrassed to admit which
>>>> paragraph it was at.
>>>
>>> I'd read the whole post before I figured it out. It didn't make =
sense,
>>> which caused me to look at the context.
>>>>
>>>> (also the previous post isn't at the same date but I also suspect =
isn't
>>>> completely in earnest. I think maybe Richard Lenski might be a funny=
 guy)
>>>>
>>>> (EDIT I'm keeping the previous parenthetical for integrity's sake =
but
>>>> the previous post actually *is* at the same date. How am I such a, =
um,
>>>> what's the term again, "hard-working student")
>>=20
>>=20
>> Yes, an understandable and simple misunderstanding; no need to assert
>> personal limitations here.
>>=20
>>=20
>
>Yes, misunderstanding things is completely normal and human. That's why=20
>it's important to keep the possibility in mind when raising the=20
>emotional stakes of a discussion to avoid getting trapped in a cycle of=20
>escalation where admitting to a misunderstanding becomes impossible=20
>without losing face.


Try it sometime, if only for the novelty of the experience.

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