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03-08-2011, 03:22 PM | #1331035 / #26 |
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This recent paper from Erlandson looks to be well worth a read. I'm going to have a look so I can refresh my memory a bit:
http://www.fsl.orst.edu/wpg/events/W...%20America.pdf |
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When are you going to learn that if you want to discuss something here, you have to discuss it here?
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04-16-2016, 09:47 PM | #2639331 / #37 | |||||||
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I could ask the same question of you, are you too lazy to copy and paste the materials you are referring to in the place where the conversation is going on. It's a common responsibility of those that make claims about anything to support those claims, and not by simply linking to some opinion piece by some uneducated, untrained and unexperienced narcissistic DK posterboy. :
And where does McCoy say "I'd be a fool to write it all off." and how does that intimate that all myth contains factual information, especially when interpreted literally? Where does McCoy say "I’d be a fool to write it all off. There is a new realization that some myths have something to say.” And do you see that phrase, "all off". Which most normal people would interpret to mean there is possibly some truth to some parts of some myths, not that all parts of all myths are completely true. But you do have a problem with that all-some-none issue, don't you. You should try to work on that. Where does Brian Atwater say "Myths can sometimes alert researchers to previously unheeded geohazards; in other cases, where science has demonstrated the danger, legends “enrich the record” and reinforce the fact that people lie in harm’s way." Remember, I specifically asked you to include any references or citations within whatever material you were quoting. Just quoting something in your silly blog is meaningless unless you reference where you got that information and provide the citation and link. You've been told this innumerable times. Why can't you get this simple concept? And I note the last sentence you quote: "The trick is teasing out which myths carry kernels of truth that can be connected to hard data." Yes, that is the trick. As I stated earlier, not all parts of all myths carry kernels of truth. Indeed, I'm guessing this was an article written by some hack because it's unusual to contemporary scientists to talk about "truth". What a bluffoon.
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04-17-2016, 12:13 AM | #2639384 / #39 |
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And not just kernals. Some myths carry the whole cob.
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04-17-2016, 02:32 AM | #2639392 / #40 |
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Oh noes, not that, what'll I do for lulz?
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