ERRORS in rebuttal to "Pandora's Promise"

[PamW]

50. WRONG AGAIN!!

kristopher,

What you've SHOWN us of Selden's quote is unambiguous.

However, since you can read; that means you can ALSO READ the definition of "fissile" on the Wikipedia entry.

Evidently, you never thought about resolving this for yourself by going to a reference publication like a DICTIONARY. Let's see what the dictionary has to say about what is or is not fissile:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Fissile

(of a nuclide) capable of undergoing fission induced by low-energy neutrons, as uranium 233 and 235.

So the REAL definition of "fissile" is as I say. Perhaps Selden was using a non-standard definition as a way of making his point to an audience that was not technically cognizant of the true meaning of "fissile". I don't know whether Selden was mis-speaking or not; since we only have your "cut and paste" version of his words. Who knows what the true meaning was in context.

Kristopher, I do NOT RECOGNIZE the AAAS as a rating agency for a CLASSIFIED FIELD.

The AAAS is for general science; science that is out in the open and is unclassified. Certainly the members of AAAS can rank people on that.

However, the members of AAAS are NOT CLEARED for CLASSIFIED information; so they really don't know; do they?

It would be like the chefs that give out the "James Beard" award ranking medical doctors. They don't know medicine.

PamW