Study: End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'


	Study: End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Wisco

7-8-2008 12:21 PM

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Wisco says:

I love that last paragraph. "No empirical evidence?" Well, other than the study, anyway.

This is the same flatearther mentality that brings you creationism and climate change denial -- dismiss any evidence that doesn't back up your prejudice, then claim the other side isn't being scientific enough.

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