"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs." -- Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, Page 71. When the adjectives come thick and fast, you know you've lost it!
In the earlier post from Helekar, I could entertain myself counting: bogus insinuations (aside: are their genuine insinuations?)... fabricated narratives... not a [...] genuine intellectually honest argument, spurious ideological smear... bogus propaganda ... blatant falsification of the facts... fabrication of a purely self-serving ideological narrative... hackneyed straw men... red herrings and insinuations... claim is dishonest and bogus... outright fabrication... any scientifically literate person knows [there's still space for scientific illiterates to disagree]... a bogus narrative as well as dishonest insinuation... gratuitously smearing others with bogus insinuations and innuendo... recycling of a political canard... buzz words and dog whistles ... discredited... political propaganda.... word salad... bogus and disingenuous these charges... and so on. With some many adjectives, where is the logic? It has been noted earlier too that anyone who disagrees with Helekar's viewpoint are "smearing" him (or people he ideologically agrees with). When he disagrees with someone else, of course, it's all for the greater good of diminishing scientific illiteracy, or some such entirely laudatory (if self-appointed) task. To be able to use the word "admin" as a insult is another achievement, more so when Goanet is not just any highly unsucessful network whose main model is based on offending, insulting and abusing one another. To easily dismiss people he disagrees with, Helekar claims that unnamed persons are making all kind of ludicrous arguments on Goanet. It would be very interesting to see who said what Helekar claims they said, and where. I don't believe anyone is fool enough to argue on Goanet, as Helekar claims that people on Goanet have been saying: QUOTE: 1. That we Indians were better off when we were under colonial occupation. 2. That we lived longer in the olden days. 3. That scientific progress and modern scientific medicine have not improved our lives. 4. That ancient superstitions, faith-based nostrums, religious rituals and paranormal practices were better and more effective than modern scientific procedures. UNQUOTE. Issues involved are far more subtle and complex than Helekar makes them out to be; creating strawmen is anyway a good way to "win" cheap arguments. Over to anyone else to continue with last-wordism on labour this point. I've said my bit. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490
