11th August 2005, 5:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 11th August 2005, 11:50 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Interesting... I would add that it's not just "hardball" questions, from what you have said they apparently never questioned his claims. He wouldn't need to do anything hard, just ask "where did you get that information?" every single time he makes a claim.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)