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<p>[quote user="henry6"]</p> <p>I know a lot of guys...old and young for that matter...who will take offense at what I've said. But we can't and shouldn't accept anyone's word just because it is said or written. I knew a guy about 40 years ago who did slide programs with 35mm pics he took from books, etc.. He went around to schools and civic groups with a program that was totally without fact execpt that the pictures were of trains...not of the railroads he said they were nor where he claimed the pictures were taken...but he passed along a lot of bad and erroneous information. We couldn't correct him because he took so much offense, so the misiformation went on...</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Henry,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t think anybody is disputing the value of books and other reference materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you seem to be generalizing that answers to questions posted in the forum should be discounted because they are not fact checked, and that this is an inherent problem with everything said on the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, whether it is here on the forum or in the research library, it is up to the inquirer to convince himself or herself that they have found the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no guarantee that it is accurate just because it is in a book</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">You mention the guy with the slides who was peddling false information, and you could not correct him because he would get offended, and if I understand you, you are comparing that to the people giving information on the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if that is so, here we are free to correct anybody who is giving false information, and nobody ever gets offended over it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the self-correcting beauty of the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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