Re[2]: [tied] Ban all non academic discussions

At 7:44:35 AM on Sunday, April 20, 2008, kishore patnaik
wrote:

>> I don't think anyone here will be willing to discuss such
>> things. I won't, for one, just as I wouldn't discuss the
>> geography of Atlantic (though Plato's description of it
>> is in Ancient Greek, i.e. an IE language). They might
>> allow you to discuss such fantastic chronologies on lists
>> devoted to Indian Culture, here they qualify both as
>> crank scholarship and as off-topic stuff.

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> While you can make a demand or moderation to stop me from
> posting these since it may not be of interest to the
> group, I may remind you that you (or the group) have no
> right to pass value judgments. period.

If you mean passing judgement on the scholarly or scientific
merits of hypotheses, you're quite wrong: such judgements
are an integral part of science.

Brian