{"id":426,"date":"2009-02-07T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2009-02-07T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T22:40:13","slug":"geek-thoughts-all-too-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/02\/geek-thoughts-all-too-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Thoughts: all too true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Jeffrey D. Kooistra&#8217;s April 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/0904\/altview.shtml\">Alternate View<\/a> column in Analog magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">If there is one thing that has become clear in the twenty years since the advent of [Cold Fusion], it is that presenting the straight scientific facts in straight prose and to a significant level of detail doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sway set-in-concrete, or even set-in-Jell-O, opinions one damn bit.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All too true. 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