Hi Anthony,
The point being, sometimes people who have been deeply 'indoctrinated' into a system cannot see their way clear of it to realize they are wrong about something very fundamental. It shouldn't be a crime to question these things, or to ask for specific evidence that refutes a new concept.
What you say is basically true. However, I wouldn't have imagined you being partial of not doing one's basic research before going out on an odyssey of questioning conclusions reached by others having spent years in their research. Because, whether you like it or not, that is Morph's case, isn't it? I can't understand (well, in a way I do...but that's another issue) why you are encouraging him to continue with this rubbish of Spica and Bootes, knowing full and well, that his basic knowledge of AE astronomy is limited to looking at pictures in the net and quoting touregypt.
And yes, I do believe in knowledge shared. That is what these boards are supposed to be about, isn't it. But when you give references and show evidence to somebody you imagine interested in the subject, and yet see that both are very obviously ignored for the sake of pushing forward one's own agenda, you'll have to admit that there's something wrong in the picture!!
Summa summarum, I can't for the life of me understand, why you are endorsing Morph's ideas and "questioning" here, especially since you yourself never miss a chance to bring up the extent of your own studies as far as the AE goes!! What happened to evidence and conclusions based on it, eh? Or, and I am sorry but I have to say this, is this due to Bootes as sAH pleasing you personally, because it would lift Orion's shadow off Giza???
Ritva