Interpreter Drops a Thanksgiving Bomb on Kofford Books
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2022 1:21 am
Happy Black Friday, friend and colleagues! I hope you all enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday and got your fill of turkeys and desserts. As you may be aware, Thanksgiving has a somewhat peculiar status when it come to the Mopologists: simply put, the Mopologists usually do rotten things. This year, in keeping with tradition, was no different. Dr. Peterson led off his holiday posting with this:
https://interpreterfoundation.org/an-im ... -infinite/
Notice that the Editor’s Note explains that this is *not even the real review*! Well, why not wait for the final, copy edited, fact-checked (hahaha) version? This seems pretty obviously to be a slam on Kofford Books and Loyd Erickson, who publicly complained after Bradshaw apparently used his advanced review copy of the book to write his *own* book on the same topic. So, this is about “scooping” Kofford and firing yet another shot across the bow, I suppose. And to Bradshaw’s credit, he is at least attempting to identify “what’s good”—one out of three’s not bad, eh?
In any case, who wants to place bets on how the final version of Bradshaw’s review will change? And how much of those changes will be the result of things that are said on this board?
How long do you suppose he actually “hesitated”? Half a second? And why not wait a day so as to avoid “marring” the holiday? Well, we can speculate all day, but the fact remains that Peterson and Mormon Interpreter opted to post their “review” of Kofford Brooks’s Method Infinite on Thanksgiving Day! Classy move, guys. You can check out the “review” here:I hesitated just a bit before deciding to call your attention to a new piece that has appeared on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation, where it will remain for the next several weeks. Today is an important holiday here in the United States, and I don’t want to mar or distract from the spirit of the day, which I hope will be a wonderful one for all who observe it. But this item has been the subject of pre-publication controversy in some circles, so that I’ve decided to go ahead with mentioning it:
https://interpreterfoundation.org/an-im ... -infinite/
Notice that the Editor’s Note explains that this is *not even the real review*! Well, why not wait for the final, copy edited, fact-checked (hahaha) version? This seems pretty obviously to be a slam on Kofford Books and Loyd Erickson, who publicly complained after Bradshaw apparently used his advanced review copy of the book to write his *own* book on the same topic. So, this is about “scooping” Kofford and firing yet another shot across the bow, I suppose. And to Bradshaw’s credit, he is at least attempting to identify “what’s good”—one out of three’s not bad, eh?
In any case, who wants to place bets on how the final version of Bradshaw’s review will change? And how much of those changes will be the result of things that are said on this board?