Re: Ban all non academic discussions

On 2008-04-20 13:44, kishore patnaik wrote:

> You are a linguist. How can you judge the dating aspect as crank
> when the dating is done by scientists of yesteryears?

I _can_ question the reasoning that leads to such datings. It has
precious little to do with science, whether social or natural, but
everything to do with arbitrary interpretation and wishful thinking.
What _credible_ scientists (outside the Indocentric mutual support
group) accept the validity of such methodology?

> 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.

And why's that? Do you mean I have no right to say that e.g. Erich von
Däniken, Michael Cremo and other "researchers" of that kind are frauds
because I'm not a professional archaeologist? I know enough about
methods of science in general to see through obvious charlatanry even
outside my own discipline.

Piotr