Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: AB Review..for Tom K. Message-ID: <9508120826.0BUZ700@support.com> References: <1995Aug12.133417@cantva> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 08:26:33 -0700 Lines: 48 greig@columbia.Colorado.EDU (David Iain Greig) >: lippard@Primenet.Com (James J. Lippard) to Diane: : >You've demonstrated yourself many times to be a tireless researcher : >of fairly high reliability. > >: Your condescending praise is a bit belated and clearly >: patronizing considering what follows. > : >I'd hate to see that stop. > >: Course you would. Then some unnamed folks might have to >: do *their own* research in order to convincingly play >: "investigative reporter". David: > As a regular poster to talk.origins, a group Jim Lippard >has been on for a long, long time, let me state that Jim Lippard >is perhaps the most scrupulously honest person I have ever met on >USENET. Mr. Lippard is almost fanatical in his dedication to >being accurate. That's why I'm pointing out to him that he's uncharacteristicly drifting away from objectivity. > It used to be that the best way to get flamed off the Net >was to accuse Jim Lippard of being a liar. I can recall several >posters who did so in the past, were buried under a veritable >avalanche of flames from other regulars, and ended up retracting >their accusations when Jim was, as usual, able to provide firm >evidence to back up his statements. > > Jim Lippard is interested in the truth. I would certainly hope so. >Dave Greig Any critique I do of his accuracy will be public. So you will have a chance to "flame me off the Net" if I go too far or become imprecise. +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"