Thursday, July 7, 2005

WHEN WILL JUDGES STICK TO JUDGING AND LEAVE THE SCIENCE TO SCIENTISTS? With the whole dust-up over judicial resolution of competing scientific claims finally dying down after the Schiavo matter, I don't mean to stir the pot. Nonetheless, I just came across Pring v. Penthouse Intern., Ltd., 695 F.2d 438 (10th Cir. 1982) for the first time in years. For those unfamiliar with Pring -- both the case and the beauty queen -- apparently the Tenth Circuit does not believe "that levitation could be accomplished by oral sex [performed by Miss Wisconsin] before a national television audience or anywhere else."

To which the empiricists, skeptics, and Spacemen respond: No? Try me.

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