Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Russell McMahon wrote:
>
>   
>> "[...] found a suggestive correlation between the source of funding and
>> the conclusion drawn."
>>     
>
> Using an empirical (scientific?) view of human behavior, this is to be
> expected :)
>
> Gerhard
>
>   
That's the way it always is and always has been.

My dear ol' mom (84 this year, a retired college professor) said that 
the reason  the Roman Empire  prospered
for so long was not their engineering, which was awesome, but their 
incredible method of justice. Whenever someone
was killed, the authorities simply sought out whoever would gain from 
the death, and punished him or her..,  never
bothering to actually chase down the culprit. That form of justice kept 
people from plotting a lot of stuff, because they
knew that they never could get away with it. This caused people to 
genuinely hope that nothing ever happened to their
rivals. Its a system that really worked,  a form of "follow the money".

--Bob
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