On 5 December 2010 07:11, J. Colaco < jc> <[email protected]> wrote:
> You may not be aware but Santoshbab is one learned gentleman - holding > his own at a major and very competitive US teaching Institution. I am > not sure what your (FN's) experience has been (or is) with the level > of competition (for status as well as for research funding) within > (even) Indian Universities but I can tell you that in 2010, in the US, > one is either with substance or one is on the street. A very interesting twist to the argument, one which certainly does merit to the GMC debating champ of 197X (or 196X). It reminds me of those discussions of the yesteryears, which went something like this: "Even Albert Einstein believes that socialism is an inherently superior system." Now, as we all know, this is an appeal to misleading authority! Not for a moment am I contesting Neuroscientist Santosh A. Helekar's (M.D., Ph.D., Associate Research Professor of Neuroscience of the Methodist Neurological Institute) knowledge or credentials in neuroscience. But even a humble hack like me (whose work lies primarily in disseminating information or ideas received from others) reserves the right to challenge the logic of someone who gains from the projection of being an expert in a range of issues. Issues that spread from alternative systems of health-cure to oncology, superstitions, the demerits of homeopathy and ayurveda, demography including the complex relationships between life expectancy and infant mortality rates, British and Portuguese colonialism, the politics of funding involving NRI Indians, the motives behind communal strife (or was it non-communal strife?) in Orissa, Naxalite politics and motivations, paradigms and principles of journalism, the art and ethics of running a mailing list, tracking IP addresses, and the weaknesses of Goanet vis a vis endeavours like GoenchimXapotam or whatever -- and much more. > See FN, if you were aware, you would NOT have scripted the Times of > India report based on the fudged Chagas da Silva "alcoholism" study. Please could you point what you are referring to here, and what exactly is your problem with it? The author in question seems to have published quite a bit on this topic: http://www.google.com/search?q=chagas+da+silva+alcoholism+Goa&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t Or is it that you just shoot the messengers when you don't like the message they're carrying? Or, are some achievers in academia more equal than others? FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490
