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Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> cladking Wrote:
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> > Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> > > You can bet your life that someone was paid well
> > > to teach those 12,00 unemployed former Egyptology students.
> > > Nothing like riding the academic gravy train is there.
> >
> >
> > And not one of them believe the pyramids are older
> > than they appear or even as old as scientific
> > testing suggests. Not one of them believe they
> > were seed vaults or that Vyse could commit fraud.
> > Not one of them is likely to ever change his
> > opinion about ramps, tombs, superstition, or the
> > legitimacy of trying to understand the pyramid
> > builders in terms of later Egyptians.
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> It may be partly because they are fearful of
> losing their teaching jobs and academic posts.
> Hey everyone has to make a living and it's best
> not to rock the gravy train, just keep it rolling
> along.
>
>
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> > It might require a new generation of Egyptologists
> > to even get scientific testing done and a third
> > generation to accept the results. Every year more
> > money will disappear into tombs and ramps and
> > looking for gold.
Even if an Egyptologist in a faculty position averages a humble $50k wage/yr in the USA, then for every 20 of them, that's a million bucks. So assuming there's more than a handful of Egyptologists in the USA, how many millions is that in the USA alone? And considering that many of them survive in publish-or-perish mode, that means millions are spent on spreading the word.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 29-May-16 02:54 by Origyptian.
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> cladking Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > Jon Ellison Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > > You can bet your life that someone was paid well
> > > to teach those 12,00 unemployed former Egyptology students.
> > > Nothing like riding the academic gravy train is there.
> >
> >
> > And not one of them believe the pyramids are older
> > than they appear or even as old as scientific
> > testing suggests. Not one of them believe they
> > were seed vaults or that Vyse could commit fraud.
> > Not one of them is likely to ever change his
> > opinion about ramps, tombs, superstition, or the
> > legitimacy of trying to understand the pyramid
> > builders in terms of later Egyptians.
>
> It may be partly because they are fearful of
> losing their teaching jobs and academic posts.
> Hey everyone has to make a living and it's best
> not to rock the gravy train, just keep it rolling
> along.
>
>
> >
> > It might require a new generation of Egyptologists
> > to even get scientific testing done and a third
> > generation to accept the results. Every year more
> > money will disappear into tombs and ramps and
> > looking for gold.
Even if an Egyptologist in a faculty position averages a humble $50k wage/yr in the USA, then for every 20 of them, that's a million bucks. So assuming there's more than a handful of Egyptologists in the USA, how many millions is that in the USA alone? And considering that many of them survive in publish-or-perish mode, that means millions are spent on spreading the word.
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How can any of us ever know, when all we can do is think?
How can any of us ever know, when all we can do is think?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 29-May-16 02:54 by Origyptian.
