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Ya know, the guy who first recognized that the bones in the La Brea Tar Pits as prehistoric rather than the remains of contemporary animals that just strayed into them was an Englishman named William Denton. He was a spiritualist and a psychometrist...that is, someone who discerned the nature of an object by feeling it. I think his evidence wasn't worth smilodon doo-doo, but it didn't mean he was wrong. In this case, you have corporate apologists jumping on the fact that overzealous scientists here and there tossing bits of bad evidence into a vat of irrefutably sound evidence. The public relations and advertising firms engaged in this concerted denial of reality are some of the same people who successfully blew smokescreens for the tobacco industry for years...decades, really. I'm flabbergasted that such corporate apologists find cothinkers among would-be radicals. OK, I confess. I'm not really flabbergasted. I decided to say that I am to emphasize a point. I honestly wish I would be flabbergasted, but I've lived so long on the Marxist left that I've learned to expect it. : - ) ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
