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A comment on Alan Turing's 'Morphogenesis' Theory Confirmed 60 Years After His Death. Parent comment

Re:Alan Turing's 'Morphogenesis' Theory Confirmed 60 Years A... by baddox on Sunday March 23, 2014 @12:39AM (#7452153)
I say deliberately, because it is so specific and so easy to verify. Either the commenter has read the book, in which case such a strong statement could only be confidently made if paired with an extraordinarily bad memory, or the commenter has not read the book (or done a quick search to see if the book contains these references), in which case I consider the lie to be the result of deliberate ignorance.
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Re:Alan Turing's 'Morphogenesis' Theory Confirmed 60 Years A... by e12e on Sunday March 23, 2014 @05:00AM (#7452649)
> in which case I consider the lie to be the result of deliberate ignorance.

It's not a lie, if it is the result of ignorance.

I'm not even sure what "deliberate ignorance" means in this context: he knowingly doesn't know if Wolfram mentioned this, and guessing he probably did, chooses to say he didn't?

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Re:Alan Turing's 'Morphogenesis' Theory Confirmed 60 Years A... by baddox on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:45AM (#7452846)
Yes. If he knows that he has never read the book and thus doesn't know what is and isn't in it, then I would consider it a deliberate lie to make a confident claim about the contents of the book.
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