Re: The UCL meeting, and PV Tobias" apology" to Morgan...
Phillip Bigelow (n8010095@cc.wwu.edu)
28 Nov 1995 13:48:57 -0800
Elaine Morgan <Elaine@desco.demon.co.uk> writes:
>However something certainly happened. It seemed to me that an eye-witness
>account was worth posting, to avoid the possibility that this statement
>might otherwise be given the same treatment as Hardy's original
>suggestion i.e. total silence and the pretence that nothing has occurred.
The reason for total silence is more of a reflection of the pro-AAT people's
failure to publish their theories in critically-peer-reviewed
anthropological journals, where science is conducted, discussed, and
advanced. Like it or not, Elaine...those are the harsh rules.
>Nothing has appeared in the scientific press as far as I have seen,
>although it would seem to be newsworthy enough to deserve a paragraph
>somewhere or other.
When you publish a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of the theory
in a critically-reviewed anthropological journal, that is when you will see
a paragraph in _Science News_. Until then, don't expect that the Q&A
session of a technical talk to warrant the fanfare you feel you deserve.
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