rcrocket wrote:These are examples of silly breast-beating. I don't know a good academic, who writes and publishes, who does this sort of thing. At least with the silly regulatory you do. You might influence the silly folks who post here, but you won't who read and think with some clarity. Obviously, you feel that your arguments can't stand on their own merits. Am I wrong?
In other words, you don't know many academics, or you don't know them well. And by the way, plenty of us find Kevin's writing clear enough, and it seems that only those who don't like what he is saying have to make it blurry so they can pretend not to see the writing on the wall. Book of Abraham=Not Ancient.
Well, this isn't about me. But, I know academics. Much of what I do involves reading academic literature, hiring them, and directing their research. Certainly not in Egyptology, however. I guess that colors my judgment about Kevin, who I know teaches at a Brazilian university. He may teach, but he doesn't write or argue like an academic. He appeals to the worst and basest elements of his readers, pandering to his admirers if he really has any, rather than focusing a critical and neutral microscope upon the facts.
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liz3564 wrote:For those who are new to the board, and Bob's sense of humor....The Mods did NOT make that commentary.
It has, however, been known to happen on MAD.
;)
Bob likes to fantasize about being a Mod on MA&D, exercising the powers he likes to joke about here. How he would love to protect DCP or Wild Bill Hamblin from a rowdy critic! He could be their own personal cyberDanite. I can hear him salivating now.
I have repeatedly been critical of Dr. Peterson's tone. Mostly on a private list, however, where I can say it to his face. I have no interest in protecting anybody, but I seem to have an interest in mocking a really poor writer.
rcrocket wrote:Well, this isn't about me. But, I know academics. Much of what I do involves reading academic literature, hiring them, and directing their research. Certainly not in Egyptology, however. I guess that colors my judgment about Kevin, who I knows teaches at a Brazilian university. He may teach, but he doesn't write or argue like an academic. He appeals to the worst and basest elements of his readers, pandering to his admirers if he really has any, rather than focusing a critical and neutral microscope upon the facts.
Hmmm. OK. What field? Nuclear physics? Engineering? And how much experience do you have with scholars in the Humanities?
Yeah, those Brazilian universities. Gotta watch out for them. (puzzled shrug)
And, by the way, DCP does not write or argue like an academic either, when he is on a message board. Nice one.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
rcrocket wrote:I have repeatedly been critical of Dr. Peterson's tone. Mostly on a private list, however, where I can say it to his face. I have no interest in protecting anybody, but I seem to have an interest in mocking a really poor writer.
rcrocket
Like DCP? Who wouldn't know a pertinent argument if it bit him on the...
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
rcrocket wrote:These are examples of silly breast-beating. I don't know a good academic, who writes and publishes, who does this sort of thing. At least with the silly regulatory you do. You might influence the silly folks who post here, but you won't who read and think with some clarity. Obviously, you feel that your arguments can't stand on their own merits. Am I wrong?
In other words, you don't know many academics, or you don't know them well. And by the way, plenty of us find Kevin's writing clear enough, and it seems that only those who don't like what he is saying have to make it blurry so they can pretend not to see the writing on the wall. Book of Abraham=Not Ancient.
Well, this isn't about me. But, I know academics. Much of what I do involves reading academic literature, hiring them, and directing their research. Certainly not in Egyptology, however. I guess that colors my judgment about Kevin, who I knows teaches at a Brazilian university. He may teach, but he doesn't write or argue like an academic. He appeals to the worst and basest elements of his readers, pandering to his admirers if he really has any, rather than focusing a critical and neutral microscope upon the facts.
People hire academic literature? Academic literature does research? You sure do know academics!
Snarky grammatology aside, what kind of research are you directing?
And I feel compelled to point out again, that while this board is far from an arena of strictly scholarly discussion, Keven does write and argue like an academic. I'm not making this up. I see no difference between Kevin's posting style and the writing/posting styles of my colleagues across the globe. Go figure, huh?
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
Blixa wrote:And I feel compelled to point out again, that while this board is far from an arena of strictly scholarly discussion, Keven does write and argue like an academic. I'm not making this up. I see no difference between Kevin's posting style and the writing/posting styles of my colleagues across the globe. Go figure, huh?
Blixa, are you working for a Brazilian university too? Come on now, fess up!
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Blixa wrote:And I feel compelled to point out again, that while this board is far from an arena of strictly scholarly discussion, Keven does write and argue like an academic. I'm not making this up. I see no difference between Kevin's posting style and the writing/posting styles of my colleagues across the globe. Go figure, huh?
Blixa, are you working for a Brazilian university too? Come on now, fess up!
I hear she works at a low-rent high school in an obscure hamlet somewhere on the East Coast.
Blixa wrote: Snarky grammatology aside, what kind of research are you directing?
And I feel compelled to point out again, that while this board is far from an arena of strictly scholarly discussion, Keven does write and argue like an academic. I'm not making this up. I see no difference between Kevin's posting style and the writing/posting styles of my colleagues across the globe. Go figure, huh?
Sorry to write so quickly. I hire and direct PhDs and a few masters degree holders who are economists, archaeologists, biologists, hyrdologists, historians (recent economic history), civil engineers, archivists (government files), and others in highly specialized areas, such as nuclear power plant risks and sport stadiums. I have also directed studies in the statistical method and have published under my own name on the basis of research directed. So, I read in lots of different areas.