Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests

Why is it that so many well-intentioned threads devolve into wordsmithing contests? Is it necessary to argue about the meaning of posts when the language thereof is reasonably clear on its face?

celander02-26-2019 2:20pm

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celander OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,502 posts 02-26-2019 at 10:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hey, I never said W&C were honest scientists. But RF got it wrong.
stevecham Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,340 posts 02-26-2019 at 11:19pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete RF got it wrong? Don't you mean for the time she had her data she hadn't fully interpreted it or analyzed it? It wasn't for anyone else to steal and have at. That's intellectual property theft. Eventually she would have gotten it.
celander OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,502 posts 02-26-2019 at 11:28pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Eventually...maybe. She shared it with W&C. Wilkens shared the Nobel. She would have had she been alive.
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 02-26-2019 at 11:36pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete You lose. You’re both way way off. 😥
hifiman5 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,823 posts 02-27-2019 at 12:27am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Or as Frank Zappa said, "I get off being chuked by a baby octopus and spewed upon with creamed corn".😮

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