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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Some clarification. 1)I believe NMD has been tested three times and has failed twice. 2)I'm taking an informal logic course right now. Seeing as we're arguing aout fallacies and such, it is a fallacy to make a fallacious appeal to authority, (ie) the authority as put forward isn't one. Now, its something of a fuzzy area what comprises an authority, but one must generally be a recognized expert in a discrete field. Tom Clancy isn't an expert in the field in question. He writes fictional literature based on his own limited knowledge of highly classified data, within the constraints of drama. He's no more qualified to endorse this system than Chris Gough is to tell you how to align dilithium crystals in a Klingon warp core. The Nobel Laureates are another matter. Internationally acclaimed intellectuals are generally the best possible authorities through most conventions in informal logic. The most important thing is that their field of expertise is the field in question. I'll concede that a Physics Laureateship(?) isn't a perfect fit with space-based nuclear weaponry as a field of knowledge. They are, however, probably the closest thing to a body of experts you're gonna get short of actual professors who've wrote theses on the things. (Which, incidentally, there are no shortage of, and most of them are anti-NMD, but that's only so far as I've seen) Anyway, I don't think I'll join in to this wholesale because a)I think everyone can guess which side I'll take b)Most of my points are being articulated anyway. Cheers, Tom [/QB][/QUOTE]
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