Humdinger said:

> Among other classes, I have been teaching "Research Methods"
> classes at the university level...   ...I would not accept everything
> that's been said even in this thread in blind faith.

Here's the corollary to Claude Shannon's basic "Information Theory"
paper, as taught in the Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
curricula ever since web sites started to appear on the 'net in the 1990s:


1)  The number of web pages continues to grow exponentially

2)  The number of verified facts continues to grow very slowly.

3)  The solution is left to the student as an exercise.


        jim