Re: WHITAKER'S LAWS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jeffrey G. Brown (jeff_brown@pol.com)
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:24:00 -0500
In article <32ED58DA.769C@conterra.com>, bwhit@conterra.com wrote [in
response to Scott MacEachern (smaceach@polar.bowdoin.edu)]:
> [...deletia...]
> As a good PC, you can't tell the difference between successes and your
>own moral judgements. In answer to my question about successes, you
>gave me a restatement of your faith.
> Nothing you academic bureaucrats adocate ever WORKS.
Nothing Bobby Whitaker ever claims is ever backed by any EVIDENCE. We are,
instead, expected to accept it as true Because! Bobby! Says! So!
> [...deletia...]
>> If you'd wanted successes strictly within my sub-discipline, archaeology,
>> I would've talked about processualism and post-processualism, settlement
>> archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, the increase in gender studies, the
>> great extensions of lithic research, faunal analysis, style theories...
>> lots of other stuff over say the last 30 years. I'd let the cultural people
>> talk about their side of it. But I didn't want to lose you completely.
>
> I can't believe you're provincial enough to think professional slang
>impresses anybody.
I find it quite easy to believe that Bobby hasn't a clue what Scott
MacEachern is talking about, so he waves it off with some mumbling about
"professional slang".
Tell us, Bobby... if you, as a non-scientist, were arguing about modern
physics with a physicist, should he avoid "professional slang" terms like
"atom" or "quantum state" because you don't understand them, or should you
be expected to learn enough of the terminology of the specialty to carry
on an intelligent conversation?
> [...deletia...]
> Professional slang does not substitute for reality. Your "modern
>anthropologists have proven all races are equal in innate abilities" was
>pure carp.
Kindly cite for us a post or publication from Dr. MacEachern which
contains this statement or its equivalent.
> Your criminal as victimwas pure crap.
Kindly cite for us a post or publication from Dr. MacEachern which
contains this statement or its equivalent.
> Everything you PC's
>haev advocated was not only silly, it's gone down your Memory Hole.
> But not ours.
What does seem to go down Bobby's Memory Hole is repeated reminders that
he needs to back up his claims with facts.
Don't worry, Bobby: I'll keep repeating this until you've not only heard
it, but can repeat it in your sleep.
JGB
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Jeffrey G. Brown jeff_brown@pol.com
"What's going to happen?" "Something wonderful..." -- '2010'
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