3rd February 2012, 01:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 3rd February 2012, 01:35 AM by quintaine.)
Wax Wrote:I firmly believe archaeology is for all but if an individual wants a theory to be taken seriously the theory must stand up to intellectual scrutiny.Why? and who sets these standards?
That does not mean the individual has to have a degree nor does it mean that the theory must be approved by an academic elite. All I require is that it can hold up against accepted standards within the scientific and academic world.
Wax Wrote:Give the public some credit most of them are perfectly capable of understanding the reservations archaeologists have about pseudo archaeology when they are given access to the facts rather than fed the pseudo archaeology agenda.
I really should not rise to your bait but you are shooting yourself down rather magnificently and I look on in awe at the ensuing wreck.
I do give the public credit by allowing them differentiate facts from fiction but you want to make the decision for them. You want to subject all findings to "accepted" standards within the scientific and academic community, limit the material available and urge them in the right direction. How is that giving the public credit? Can they too not make educated decisions and separate the wheat from the chaff. It sounds like you don't trust them to do so.
I am not "baiting" you as you suggest I am answering a point you made, politely, and the best you can do is close with a sarcastic put down.
whose baiting whom here?
but I do notice an interesting habit you all have, when I fail to capitulate entirely to your POV and I mean entirely, you take it as a grave insult and issue a sarcastic, juvenile and sometimes personal comment, you cannot seem to resist it. It may take two or three posts but you always succumb.
Is this the kind of open adult respectful forum for archaeology you want to promote?