Re: Gerold Firl and ethnographic data
Len Piotrowski (lpiotrow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:45:41 GMT
In article <52tsqg$12e6@argo.unm.edu> mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:
>[snip]
>In article <52sb85$jdv@news.sdd.hp.com>,
>Gerold Firl <geroldf@sdd.hp.com> wrote:
>>In article <lpiotrow.501.32500647@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, lpiotrow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Len Piotrowski) writes:
>>
>>|> In article <52jb5g$15la@argo.unm.edu> mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:
>>
>>|> >I was simply making the point that if you ask for a reference and get
>>|> >one, you don't have a lot to whine about, so long as it covers the topic.
>>
>>|> Unfortunately, most of what Firl assigns to this reference is wrong or
>>|> fraudulent.
>Perhaps Lenny should stop asserting fraud altogether, and "error," too,
>unless he's going to document it with alternative cites.
If you're going to uncritically support Firl in his misdeeds, perhaps you
should also consider sharing the burdens of his misconduct?
>>to see you substantiate either one. Show an instance where I have
>>wrongfully or fraudulantly "assigned" (sic) something, or where the
>>book is "wrong or fraudulent".
>>Here's a scientific prediction: you won't be able to do it.
>Good bet. Lenny's quick to label those who disagree with him "dishonest."
>And slow (or unable) to back the labels up with evidence.
I think those kind of expletives have already been reserved by you and your
triad of single-minded sociobiologists. If you think I'm bluffing your
woefully mistaken.
>That's why I don't get to read his disaffected ramblings unless somebody else
>follows up on them--and man, does sci.anthro seem like a better place for it. :)
That's disingenuous of you, Bryant. You're affected disinterest is just a
cover for your own implicative gaffes of the past.
Cheers,
--Lenny__
"If you can't remember what mnemonic means, you've got a problem."
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