To each his own. Truth and accuracy require no justification regardless what toes they may step on.
>Your comments don't really have any direct relevance to what I posted.
But I beg to differ. They are in direct response to it.
>You seem to have a gripe about the word 'science' itself.
I have no such gripe, as long as the word "science" is not coopted by non-scientific agendas such as "global warming". However, 'science' is not the bastion of purity and objective honesty that some would like to believe. It is intensely political.
>For lots of reasons (egos, budgets, political correctness) 'discoveries' in archaeology have not been subjected to the same kind of rigorous peer review one finds in physics, say.
We certainly agree on that. Of course 'peer review' is too often another political joke. Peer review is not the bastion of purity and objective honesty that some would like to believe. It is intensely political. That is the way the world works.
>Your comments about history are true.
Thank you. I was only expressing admiration for your wording of the thought:
...Most tenured American archaeologists were blindered by the 'religion' of certain prevailing belief models that prevented them from considering any evidence that went counter to their credo.
and expanding it to apply more generally. I suspect your uneasyness with my long time academic interest and research into the Lost Tribes of Israel is blindered by the 'religion' of certain prevailing belief models that prevent you from considering any evidence that goes counter to your credo.