Posted on 03/17/2019 11:36:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
“skeptical about your claim”
Sometimes I think there is a lot of potential doctoral thesis behind some of the articles I read. Especially the outlandishly “factual” ones that cannot possibly have any basis in fact at all. This is one of those. I smell a doctoral thesis brewing... even though I might be incorrect in assuming so.
Another poster said that he “smelled grant money” which sums it up pretty good as well.
I see the scheme—publish some baseless articles, then use those articles to support a doctoral thesis. Very clever.
I’m in Biblical Studies. Some portions of the field have been operating this way for several lifetimes.
Eventually one has such an impressive raft of authorities to back up garbage that it isn’t worth anyone’s bother to point out that the emperor has no clothes. At least it helps to actually demonstrate how myths can arise over several generations, even if it doesn’t tell us too much about ancient literature.
It's why we don't teach our little ones "uck" words.
I’m not convinced. There are no sound records of this claim.
Ive been wondering about that for some time.
Nice to finally have it cleared up.
I'm on a roll again, hope I can once more escape from these giant cannibals!!!
Didn’t realize that my overbite allows me to make such liberal use of “f” and “v”!
It’s amazing how memory is like a lumber room...
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-275776.html
I confess that I have not seen every pile of academic crap in the world. But then, asking that of any person would be too demanding of that person’s psyche. ;-) At the end of the day, an argument comes down to data and logic, or faith. My faith is in God, not the religion of Man.
I confess that I have not seen every pile of academic crap in the world.
I’m in theology, mostly Biblical studies, and have to try to teach my students with regards to secondary literature how to wade through the 35% garbage/64% waste of time to grab the 1% of stuff worth keeping in an efficient way.
Completely different climate—be glad you are where you are if you can’t at least tolerate a large amount of stuff that is mediocre at best.
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