Assignment for Mikey
- From: "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 4 Dec 2005 22:45:15 -0800
Mikey,
This is your assignment. Read the following piece of thread from a
conversation between myself and Jason and see if you agree with me that
he is being evasive:
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> > > > > You've made the claim that a hunter-gatherer
> > > > > lifestyle is something new.
> > > >
> > > > Yes. Or, at best it is so vague as to be meaningless (untestable
> > > > against the evidence).
> > > >
> > > > > I dispute this because abundant
> > > > > archaeological evidence suggests otherwise.
> > > >
> > > > I would have thought it obvious to you by now that I'm not the kind of
> > > > person to take anybody's word on something like this. If you are aware
> > > > of such evidence then you should refer to it specifically.
> > >
> > > A curious request from someone who has, to the best of my knowledge,
> > > never cited a single source in support of his views. There's a wealth
> > > of data surrounding hunter-gatherer studies.
> >
> > For early hominids?
>
> Why don't you try reading and find out.
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Notice the pattern in this passage. He makes big claims. I ask for
specific to support his claim. He not only fails to provide any
support for his big claims but pretends it's my fault because I didn't
read some book. It would seem to me that his evasiveness is so obvious
that not even somebody as prejudiced as yourself could deny it.
Or possibly, Mikey, you'd like to help Jason out with this question.
Jim
.
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