Right You Are, Chief, the White Moller debate.

May 19th, 2025.

Introduction

One of the things my father-in-law used to say was,

Who has more fun than people?

This old observation of his came back to me for some reason

when I started to think

about how best to respond to the James White Cory Maller debate. Upon reflection, I think that it is

time for me to limber up a bit and have myself a little bit of fun. But because duty comes before

pleasure, the first part of all this will offer a sober-minded assessment of what the heck I think

was going on. As I warm to my

subject, we'll start to have a bit more fun. Those of you who like to eat dessert first can just

skip down. And then, after that, I offer a sincere invitation to Cory Mueller. The fact that his

position is festooned with rampant silliness does not prevent his destination from being a black and

deadly serious one. The debate, in case you have some extra brain cells to burn, is embedded

at the bottom of this post. And there was one really good thing about the periodic gut health

commercials. Whenever they interrupted Mueller, it raised the level of discourse some. What actually

happened? James White won that debate and he won it

walking away. Now I say this, knowing that this was the kind of debate where the true believers

always go into it believing that their champion will wipe the floor with his opponent,

and they come out of the debate believing that this is exactly what happened, regardless of what

happened. And because I agree with James on the merits,

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