Anthony Wrote:
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> Good history is not done in a lax or slack manner.
> It is too easy to deviate far from reality when
> we do not adhere to proper rules of logical
> argumentation.
>
> Preplanned multi-generational funerary projects in
> Egypt are not based on fact, but on ad hoc, post
> facto coincidence-hunting. Such hypotheses,
> therefore, start off with a handicap that
> prohibits them from serious consideration.
>
> The reason work by "alternative historians" does
> not make it into peer reviewed publications is not
> because of some desire on the part of "orthodoxy"
> to suppress revolutionary ideas. The fact is, the
> methodologies used to arrive at the "revolutionary
> conclusions" is far short of the necessary
> standards for serious historians to consider such
> ideas as valid.
>
> We should not be expected to lower our standards
> of historical research so that fantastic, exciting
> or "interesting" claims can be accepted based on
> their emotional appeal. Instead, the people who
> present those ideas should seriously consider
> improving their works to the point that they meet
> the high standards of academic publication. If
> the work cannot be improved to that point, then
> they need to exercise intellectual integrity and
> remove their own ideas from consideration as valid
> history.
>
>
>
> Anthony
This is not the way the world works and it is most assuredly not the way
egyptology works. Consider the wave that swept through autism research
some years back. Here is a discipline based on some hard science and know-
ledge of brain operation. Yet it came to be believed that severely autistic
people were actually near normal but were trapped within their senses. ...they
simply lacked the means to communicate. "Fascilitators" were employed to oper-
ate scores of different oijui board like devices to communicate with these folks.
There were suddenly books and poetry being "written" by people who had previously
been considered effectively nearly inanimate. Of course, even a casual observer
should have seen that people who had never been exposed to writing, much less po-
etry, could not possibly start writing poems or calculus equations. It was quickly
proven that it was the fascilitators creating all this, but not until many thousands
had been employed worldwide at the task of conversing with the autistic.
The ancient Greeks believed that an object in motion stayed in motion because impetei
pushed on it as it went. It eventually fell or stopped because they tired at the task.
But no one impeded the psychologists or neurosurgeons in determining the reasons that severely autistic people don't communicate. Newton met very little resistance to his work in the laws of motion.
Egyptologists can hardly be expected to entertain every hair-brained idea that flows down the pike, but the powers that be obviously interfere with research which doesn't "toe the line". Indeed, Hawaas has now even gone so far as to automatically disallow any research not done by a "competent egyptologist". This smacks far more of protecting the status quo than it does trying to uncover the secrets. While destructive tests are being done by egyptologists, non-destructive tests by others are automatically disallowed.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.