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Gail the Actuary on May 5, 2009 - 12:12pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

That is a good point.

Unless we have an optimistic message to deliver, very few want to hear it--no matter how well documented and how obvious.

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Francois Cellier on May 7, 2009 - 12:42am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I have nothing against our Swiss consensus politics. This has been our tradition for many years, and frankly, it has served us well most of the time. There was nothing wrong with inviting both Rühl and Zittel to tell their sides of the story. However, the two position papers should have been followed up with by a strong debate, and that debate didn't take place. Meier was the wrong moderator for it. He was plainly out of his league.

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