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Originally Posted by sck5 View Post
You might not want to believe everything you read - And the word "scientist" ought to be in quotation marks sometimes.

But do correct me you Repubs out there. I sometimes forget that each of you is also a climate scientist, a geneticist, a petroleum engineer and who knows what other kind of expert
ScK5,

I made no claims nor assertions about the validity of the theory. I merely introduced it as germane to a posed question, for discussion purposes. I'm not sure what politics or "Repubs" have to do with this.

You can quibble over my use of the general term "scientist" if you like, but the fact of the matter is that the advocate of the theory, Thomas Gold, was a professor of astronomy at Cornell University. If after reading his obituary you still feel he was not a "scientist", I'd be interested to know why you believe that.

Thomas Gold Obituary
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