FARMS and the Invention of Evidence

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_Mister Scratch
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Daniel Peterson wrote:
Mister Scratch wrote:You know what? Perhaps I will contact them. Who wrote this entry, so I can reach the specific person?

I haven't the foggiest idea. Perhaps Matt Roper, but that's just a guess.

I'm not in charge of the website, and had nothing to do with this in any way. But that won't dissuade you from blathering on about collective guilt. What a card you are.


What are you talking about? I don't see anything wrong with asking that the Maxwell Institute list legitimate evidence on its website. Moreover, since you yourself have pointed out that you're the "only one" who looks in on this site, what's wrong with asking you why this bogus horse nonsense continues to circulate on the website?

Anyways: if you're not in charge of the website (or don't have any say in it whatsoever, despite your status as editor-in-chief of FARMS Review, and despite the fact that you've contributed more articles to the website than any other author), then who is, so I can contact him/her?
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Mister Scratch wrote:What are you talking about? I don't see anything wrong with asking that the Maxwell Institute list legitimate evidence on its website.

Nor do I. So ask them.

These short little items virtually always rest on the basis of something already published. So ask about it.

Mister Scratch wrote:Moreover, since you yourself have pointed out that you're the "only one" who looks in on this site, what's wrong with asking you why this bogus horse nonsense continues to circulate on the website?

There's nothing wrong with asking. And I've suggested that you ask somebody else, and even provided you the means for doing so.

Mister Scratch wrote:Anyways: if you're not in charge of the website (or don't have any say in it whatsoever, despite your status as editor-in-chief of FARMS Review, and despite the fact that you've contributed more articles to the website than any other author), then who is, so I can contact him/her?

We have a webmaster who is not responsible for content.

What on earth does the fact that I'm the editor of the FARMS Review have to do with whether or not I'm in charge of the website? Do you seriously imagine that the FARMS Review is the only publication of FARMS or the Maxwell Institute? It's only one of three Institute periodicals, to say nothing of several score books.
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Mister Scratch wrote:what's wrong with asking you why this bogus horse nonsense continues to circulate on the website?


What bogus horse nonsense and which website?
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Ray A wrote:
Mister Scratch wrote:what's wrong with asking you why this bogus horse nonsense continues to circulate on the website?


What bogus horse nonsense and which website?


Read the OP, Ray.
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Mister Scratch wrote:

Read the OP, Ray.


You're slow, Scratch.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:
Mister Scratch wrote:Anyways: if you're not in charge of the website (or don't have any say in it whatsoever, despite your status as editor-in-chief of FARMS Review, and despite the fact that you've contributed more articles to the website than any other author), then who is, so I can contact him/her?

We have a webmaster who is not responsible for content.


Oh! Okay. Who is the webmaster? Also, if the webmaster is not responsible for overseeing the content, who is? I'm just curious, since you've offered up the "means for contacting them," and yet it seems very difficult to get an answer as to who is really responsible for this FAQ entry. (Though I'm sure Matt Roper will appreciate it enormously to know that you've thrown him under the bus on this one.)

Daniel Peterson wrote:What on earth does the fact that I'm the editor of the FARMS Review have to do with whether or not I'm in charge of the website?


Are you in charge of the website's content, or do you function in any kind of editorial capacity? And if not, who does?
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Drop a note to the Institute. The people in the office will route your inquiry to the appropriate person. If you're not satisfied with the person they choose, you can contact them again. Simple.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Drop a note to the Institute. The people in the office will route your inquiry to the appropriate person. If you're not satisfied with the person they choose, you can contact them again. Simple.


Why are you dodging my questions, Prof. P? Who is in charge of the content at the website? Why won't you answer that question?
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Here is a suggestion. Since "Mopologists" need a horse so badly to confirm beliefs, why not go with something like:

"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse".

"If we could only find one horse in pre-columbian America, we would no longer have to rely on the Holy Ghost - we would know!"

And surely, this is the way the Lord works.

Hello, my name is Mister Ed"

Recommendation: Scratch should now begin his commentary with: "Hello, my name is Mister Scratch."
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Mister Scratch wrote:
Daniel Peterson wrote:Drop a note to the Institute. The people in the office will route your inquiry to the appropriate person. If you're not satisfied with the person they choose, you can contact them again. Simple.


Why are you dodging my questions, Prof. P? Who is in charge of the content at the website? Why won't you answer that question?

Why is it so burningly important to you to have a specific name? So that you can drag him or her through the usual mud?

There is no one person responsible for content. But the person most obviously responsible is the person who wrote the paragraph to which you object. I don't know who that was. I've supplied a guess, but I can't guarantee that I'm right.

Contact them and ask.

In the meantime, you can pester me here with a couple of dozen idiotic posts. But the Maxwell Institute office won't open before 8 AM (Utah time) on Monday, no matter how many such things you write here.
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