As you are parsing words, my original statement 9/26/08 12:08 AM was "Some
academics consider it good practice to accept as valid sloppy, inconclusive
data." I didn't write "accepts it good practice to accept as valid ..."
This might imply per Webster's, agreement that it is good practice. I think
many "professionals" really practice their craft more as con men; and they
consider this OK, if they accept this within their own group, kind of like
agreement among thieves (as I think many of those lecturing and writing
about Thomas Jefferson have done). However, they would not like it if their
medical doctors used this standard of performance treating them; and would
not agree this is an acceptable standard of performance.
Adrian
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> No professional, whatever their profession, "accepts it good practice to
> accept as valid sloppy, inconclusive date." This is true by definition.
>
> Some do it anyway--but no professional would argue that it is good
> practice.
>
> Please, let's keep the hyperbolic rhetoric within reasonable bounds?
>
> All best,
> Kevin
>
> ---- Original message ----
>>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:41:12 -0700
>>From: Adrian Zolkover <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: Annette Gordon-Reed praised by Edmund Morgan
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>Some academics consider it good practice to accept as valid sloppy,
>>inconclusive data. Joseph Ellis, regarding Thomas Jefferson and his
>>evaluations of Annette Gordon-Reeds writings, is unacceptably sloppy to
>>the
>>point of malpractice.
> Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
> Department of History
> James Madison University
>
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