RE: Snails in the Loess

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:06:32 -0500

At 07:44 PM 9/10/98 -0500, John E. Rylander wrote:
>Glenn,
>
>FWIW, I think Janet was just saying that your -journal sources- are
>academics (and hence, in her view, tempted to lie, distort, etc. to please
>their masters), not that -you're- an academic.
>
>Her charge seems rather scandalous -- I hope her "old river gravel" evidence
>is not just in the "it seems to me" or "it seems to Petersen" category.
>

I know what Janet was doing. I am trying to show her that when one plays
the game of saying everyone who disagrees with me is biased, a liar etc,
that those charges can be turned around and pointed at them. There is no
defence or logical argument which can refute the charge 'All academics toe
the party line to hold their jobs'. It is ad hominem at its best and is
designed to innoculate the person from any contrary evidence.

glenn

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