Posted: Feb 02, 2012 3:01 pm
logical bob wrote:proudfootz wrote:All I hear is non-historians saying it solves nothing.
Why would I take an interest in so much hand-wringing by people outside the discipline?
There's always folks on the interwebs around to dispute anything an expert might say.Man, this is poor. You're being repeatedly presented with points you can't answer and all you've got is naked appeal to authority. Carrier has a PhD. Fucking hooray. There's no certificate known to man that guarantees everything the holder says will always be right without need for justification. Do you think his doctoral thesis hinged on Bayesian equations? You establish yourself as an expert by displaying some expertise.
As for who's inside or outside the field, I don't see how us anonymous posters are going to scan and upload our degree certificates and establish that they're really ours. We'll have to stick to evaluating posts based on their merit. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
What's rich is for all your carping I've had to create post after post to explain Carrier's paper to you in detail because you apparently couldn't make sense of it.
It's hard for me to take seriously critiques from posters who have a history of being unreasonably hostile to ideas they don't seem to understand.