Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> Warwick Wrote:
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> > that should be "stone" walled. ;)
> >
> > why would you polish it first? Doesn't that
> make
> > it harder to work?
>
> Polishing is all it did, it removed the surface
> irregularities. Then it brick walled.
> No more progress. No cutting. Try yourself.
>
>
> >
> > That applies to any medium in my experience
> >
> > Isn't calling 10's of 1000's of academics and
> > scholars 'full of crap' a little over the
> > top????
>
> In terms of using copper tubes to make bore holes
> in granite all I can say is they didn't try it and
> think it through. The AE didn't have seamless
> tube. If they made tube by rolling and soft
> soldering that's fine for ornaments and teapots.
> Not going to hold up in a drill my friend..
> I've spent a lot of time in academia.


so what? is this a pissing contest now. Bank balances next?


It is
> possible that the same old ideas just get accepted
> and written and re-written without question. With
> nothing more than that all important biliography
> for support.


Not to the conspiratorial degree you are inferring


> In fact some don't even bother to read the damn
> book they just go straight to that all important
> bibliography.
> Path of least resistance.


And then there are those idiots like myself who read everything, including peer review and other scholarly criticism


>
>
> >
> > You seem to be equating one not having
> convincing
> > proof of something with being purposefully
> > deceitful.
>
> No it's institutionalised and accepted practice.


I see, the further one goes I n academia the less one attempts to learn ?????




what DO you have against the human race to have such a sour view of higher learning?



> Not a conspiracy. The economic money go round.
>
>
> >
> >
> > Oh wait....that is what is at the bottom of
> this,
> > isn't it.
> >
> > The valiant defenders of the truth striking out
> at
> > the Victorian Academics who were all
> egotistical
> > frauds.
>
> Not necessarily. However in most disciplines such
> as medicine and engineering those victorian books
> are considered a tad out of date. Methods and
> techniques move forward. New ways of looking at
> evidence. Far more people looking more critically
> at the evidence. Today people are far less
> restraind by socio political and religious
> pressures.
> Look at Darwin .. How many years before he had the
> courage to publish?


or Champollion for that matter

were they slothful tenure seeking dullards as well?



>
> As a kid I was taught that dinosaurs lumbered
> around dragging their tails and were to stupid to
> evolve and survive.
> Now we have them multicoloured, feathered and
> sprinting. Top of the tree for a couple of hundred
> million years.
> My advice is don't read victorian dinosaur books.
>
> >


They don't seem t be anywhere near my ancient history library




> >
> > More of my nonsense to you I suppose
>
> You suppose wrong. Try not to suppose.

you don't wish evidence to contribute to my conclusions?


Make up YOUR mind!


warwick