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Ross Weeks <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:36:14 -0500
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> "My sources are unreliable,
>  but their information is fascinating."
> Ashleigh Brilliant

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Tabak <[log in to unmask]>

>>>>> I think museums should, in their their educational roles, start
exploring
> these links, rather than trying to maintain a complete divide between
> "facts" and issues of meaning, values, and interpretation.  These issues
are
> significant for both science and culture based institutions. (And in my
> opinion, these serious questions reach a much wider audience, and have
> nothing to do with giving "equal time" to people who want to claim the
world
> was created 5741 years ago or that dinosaurs never really existed.)

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