From jgibson000@attbi.com Sat Apr 6 08:24:42 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g36GOfDN151164 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:24:41 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Apr 06 08:24:40 2002 -0800 Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g36GOec6028694 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:24:40 -0800 Received: from attbi.com ([12.247.22.137]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406162439.DAQW3676.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@attbi.com> for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:24:39 +0000 Message-ID: <3CAF2266.FA2EF90D@attbi.com> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:29:26 -0600 From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-AtHome0407 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: VDH References: <20020406161231.50126.qmail@web20409.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Orrin wrote: > Ross, > > Don't be surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for VDH > on this List. The majority of the participants are > part of the Orthodox Classical Studies establishment, > and their job is actually to level the playing field > between Classics and other "worhtwhile" academic > endeavours like Women's Stuides etc. VDH and his > dogmas is anathema to the culture of historical > revisionism which has taken firm root in the realm of > 'higher education' (where the only thing 'high' about > it is the pot they're all smoking). > This latest from "Orrin" reminds me of the complaint uttered frequently by Marshall B. Gardner that the **only** reason he never got (or expected to get) a "fair hearing" for his views was because of "conservatism of [scholars] who do not care to revise their theories- especially when that revision is made necessary by discoveries ... made independently of the great universities." The scholars, he wrote with the same tone of bitterness evidenced in this and other messages from "Orrin", "have their professional freemasonry. If you are not one of them, they do not want to listen to you." But who was Gardner? Notably, he was the author of _Journey to the Earth's Interior_ and purveyor of the "fact" that he "argued" all scientists were culpably and perversely blind to, namely, that earth was hollow and held a sun 600 miles in diameter at its center and had openings by which one could travel into the hollow at both poles. Yours, Jeffrey Gibson -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.) 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. Floor 1 Chicago, Illinois 60626 e-mail jgibson000@attbi.com jgibson000@hotmail.com .