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If you want to prove a scientist wrong, present evidence to the contrary rather than personal innuendos and hypotheses / observations without proof.

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The Scientific American article [1] cited as first reference in the paper is quite interesting.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-ch...

This is a good criticism of a number of Chomsky's polemical papers.

"A number", as is usual with Chomsky, being a bunch of stuff you're not going to quote, because you'd likely end up eating all of it. There's gotta be a nest somewhere.

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