On 06.09.2007 David W. Fenton wrote:
Perhaps my whole opinion on this is colored by the fact that I first
encountered the whole thing in an oral paper delivered by Rifkin in
1985, just about the time he was first publishing. I've watched his
ideas develop over the years, but there has always been a degree of
righteous indignation in the tone with which he makes his arguments.
Now, it could be that his opponents are just as self-righteous, but I
haven't encountered them in person, so have no way to know.
But the attitude that I've seen Rifkin exhibit is very much what
Taruskin was reacting against in his screeds against the concept of
authenticity in the early music movement.
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So the personality of the scientist makes his conclusions wrong? Weak?
Come on, just because you don't like the way he presents his ideas
doesn't mean the ideas are wrong.
He has to be dogmatic. Every good scientist has to be dogmatic.
Johannes
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