This is hardly surprising since the whole field of anthropology has mostly been a major fraud. The shining saints of anthropology, Boaz and Mead, have had their entire works exposed as fraudulent.
Margaret Mead really established the tone of anthropological study with her major work, "Coming of age in Samoa." She drew a portrait of a tribal society whose characteristics were as she wished them to be, rather than the way they were. I notice that after all this time, anthropology departments are working hard to rehabilitate her just because, well, she's still politically correct. And then we have the ongoing fraud that must have lasted for decades. That was that the Maya were an enlightened, non-violent society. Individual anthropologists would privately say that they knew this to be nonsense, but the herd mentality persisted, and unsuspecting students were taught this with wide-eyed worshipful acceptance. Perhaps the most glaring example of this sort of behavior in recent times was the "discovery" the the Tasaday tribe in a remote location of the Phillipines. There was a major publicity rollout and the anthropologists responsible assigned to them all the politically correct behaviour anyone could dream of. In other words, they were supposed to be non-violent communists living in harmony with nature and having no religion. My oh my. The Tasaday were revealed to be a total fraud. See: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tasadays.html My worry is how this sort of herd mentality may be affecting more important fields of scientific study. I think we are witnessing a minor aspect of this behavior in the suppression of LENR-CANR research by the scientific establishment. M. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
