Randall:
Rather than QUESTIONING my scholarship why don't you actually take the book
out of the library and CRITIQUE it. Otherwise you will continue to make
statements that are not supported by the facts, such as that Kenyans have a
great body type for soccer, a fact that you are now apparently withdrawing.
My minor factual error slipping World Cup for Olympic gold medal does in NO
way effect the issue or substantive argument. You are creating a straw men.
If you read the book and find errors, I would be happy to correct them. If
you find the reasoning fallacious, go at it: I'll revise the book and eat
humble pie. That's what discourse is all about, not questioning that WHICH
YOU HAVE NOT READ.
On 4/13/01 8:48 AM, "Randall Northam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 13/4/01 3:26 PM, Jon Entine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Randall--it is what I know. They won the Olympic gold medal, which was
>> merely a slip of keyboard. Either way, the point is made: your "thesis" is
>> pure speculation and conflicts with all the evidence. Mine is congruent with
>> all the evidence.
> It is basic errors like this that make me wonder how much of the rest of
> what John Entine says is correct. The Olympic football tournament is not
> nearly as prestigious as the World Cup. It is a junior tournament for
> players under 23 years of age, with three overage players in each squad. The
> big European countries don't send full squads because their players are on
> league duty. Indeed there is no British team in the tournament
> Granted Nigerians are better at football than Kenyans, they are a little bit
> better than the Egyptians and Tunisians and Europe has plundered their
> players. The Nigerians are better than the South Africans as well but
> football is an even bigger deal in South Africa.
> There are many factors that stop Kenyans from being good at football. I'm
> not a physiologist but their body "types" look good for footballers to me.
> Apart from eating and drinking, the two things I know about are athletics
> and football and I have seen so many basic errors of fact in John Entine's
> posts that I have to question the rest of his scholarship.
> Randall Northam
>
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