Re: What's Wrong With Michael Cerkowski's "Scholarship"?

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 03:06:22 -0400, "Michael Cerkowski
<mjc1@" <"SLICK>albany.net"> wrote:


What's wrong is, there is no scholarship at all.  Slick
is an animal "rights" passivist who holds an
uninformed, polemical belief - "hunting is bad" - and
has worked frantically to try to develop some kind of
empirical support for the belief.  That alone is
evidence of zero scholarship:  honest researchers may
start with expectations of what they will find in the
course of their research, but they select only the
empirical "facts" that support their preconceived
beliefs.  That is what Slick has done.

The other massive flaw in Slick's screed is, there is
no reference for any of his supposed "facts" about
deer.  He gives some links to reference materials at
the end of the screed, but there is no evidence he has
read any of it.

It's funny that Slick thinks he has a hope of being
taken seriously, given his laughably obvious pursuit of
a political agenda.