>
>
> On May 22, 2006, at 1:46 PM, authfriend wrote:
>
> > > Yeah I saw that. Amazon's rating system is notoriously
> > > manipulated to people who want to trash books, which in some
> > > cases they've not even read.
> >
> > Manipulated how, and by whom? Seems unlikely that Amazon
> > itself would do this, given that books that are well
> > reviewed are probably going to sell more copies.
>
> By people holding opinions on the topics involved.
Oh, you meant manipulated *by*, not manipulated *to*,
as you said to start with.
And of course the manipulation can occur by people
who want to *praise* a book.
You don't have to
> buy the book to leave a review on Amazon. You don't even have to
> own the book.
>
> For example, several of the popular works on Afrocentrism which
> were long ago discredited by historians as well as by recent
> discoveries are given bad reviews by some historians, but
> Afrocentrists will post dozens of posts to boost the book. The same
> can happen with negative reviews on controversial topics.
Uh, right, and with positive reviews as well. That
doesn't appear to be the case with Nanda's book, either
pro or con, as I've already pointed out, so I'm not
sure what the relevance is here.
The point is that she doesn't seem to have the
requisite credentials to trash Vedic science. And
the positive reviewers don't give any indication of
any knowledge of Vedic science beyond what they read
in her book; they just assumed she knew what she was
talking about, swallowed it whole, and gave their
stamp of approval to her thorough annihilation of a
straw man.
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