Re: Savanna nonsense


Algis Kuliukas wrote:

....

>
> As I said, you only quote the fraction you feel comfortable with and
> not the parts which show that Reynolds, unlike most of the aquasceptics
> here, has no problem with the idea that moving through water might have
> acted as an agency of selection in our evolution. Note that on my web
> site I quote both.

a) I just quoted more of what he had to say here than you ever have
done.

b) You seem happy to promote your website when it appears to present an
argument you like, but you don't like us bringing up your ridiculous
aquatic hybrid ape hypothesis, your kiddie stories, or your eulogising
of the wet-aper pantheon.

c) I did include the argument that Reynolds found favourable to AAH, so
was that a deliberate lie, or merely an oversight, when you accused me
of only quoting the fraction I feel comfortable with?

[snip whining about throwaway lines]

> > > > > If I'd have selecteively quoted something like that, or Marc or Elaine
> > > > > or any dreaded AAH proponent, Jim Moore would have used at as evidence
> > > > > of dodgy 'AATer Research methods.' I wonder if he'll criticise you for
> > > > > doing so.
> >
> > Probably not. He may choose to criticise you for your selective quoting
> > which my postings above serve to highlight.
>
> Of course. He'd cite me for misusing quotes, not you - because he, like
> you, only give one side of the argument - the side he likes to hear.
> Some scientific critique, that.

Considering the whole raison d'etre of Jim's website is to highlight
the failings of AAH, it's unlikely that he would waste it's space
drawing attention to my failings. You can set up a web page dedicated
to showing the flaws in my hypothesis if you can just work out what it
is.

....

> The Reynolds quote, the Groves quote and the Tobias quotes support the
> notion that the AAH, if defined mildly, is worthy of serious
> consideration. That you cannot bring yourself to admit this, that you
> have to carefully *selectively* edit out those parts of the literature
> to attempt to pretend that they are as hostile to the idea as are some
> of the rabidly aquasceptics here, indicates to me that you have little
> interest in scientific objectivity.

Balls! They were just being polite. They think you're a bunch of kooks,
just like we do, but they're trying to observe scientific niceties. If
they really took it seriously it'd be open slather, like it is between
MREH & OOA, or hobbit-as-species vs hobbit-as-pathological.

You're a joke Algis. You, and Marc, and Elaine, and the rest of you.
Didn't you know? A bunch of sad, pathetic jokes, the lot of you...

....

> Again, you religiously avoid the other sentences which show an
> oppenness to the idea that water acted as an agency of selection. It's
> a bit of a tribal attitude you have I think, Ross. Why can't you admit
> that some paleoanthropologists think that the AAH is actually not such
> a terrible idea?

Because I choose not to delude you more than you already delude
yourself...

Ross Macfarlane

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Relevant Pages

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