Crackpots frequently build lists of scientists being wrong, misrepresent quotes, and the like, but doing that for librarians ? That’s quite outstanding.
I dislike gjm’s and your contempt for librarians. My favorite writer, Jorge Luis Borges, was a librarian. Being a librarian does not disqualify one from commenting.
His rebuttal letter to Norbert Weiner was apparently thought worth publishing by Science, right after a Harvard physicist’s letter and before another letter. This indicates that his thinking was hardly marginal, considered low-quality, or uninformed, and tells us what the thinking was like at the time—which is all the quote was supposed to do!
Taube is hardly ‘just’ a libarian. See my reply to gjm.
My “contempt for librarians” is sufficiently fictional that I am happy to pay the 5 karma point penalty I am currently paying (on account of the very negative comment upthread) to reiterate: I do not have contempt for librarians, nor did I express contempt for librarians; you are drawing an incorrect inference and should update whatever mental model led you to draw it.
(I agree that private_messaging’s comment is extremely silly, and I regret the fact that what I wrote seems to have encouraged it.)
Crackpots frequently build lists of scientists being wrong, misrepresent quotes, and the like, but doing that for librarians ? That’s quite outstanding.
I dislike gjm’s and your contempt for librarians. My favorite writer, Jorge Luis Borges, was a librarian. Being a librarian does not disqualify one from commenting.
His rebuttal letter to Norbert Weiner was apparently thought worth publishing by Science, right after a Harvard physicist’s letter and before another letter. This indicates that his thinking was hardly marginal, considered low-quality, or uninformed, and tells us what the thinking was like at the time—which is all the quote was supposed to do!
Taube is hardly ‘just’ a libarian. See my reply to gjm.
My “contempt for librarians” is sufficiently fictional that I am happy to pay the 5 karma point penalty I am currently paying (on account of the very negative comment upthread) to reiterate: I do not have contempt for librarians, nor did I express contempt for librarians; you are drawing an incorrect inference and should update whatever mental model led you to draw it.
(I agree that private_messaging’s comment is extremely silly, and I regret the fact that what I wrote seems to have encouraged it.)
I think you misunderstood. No contempt for librarians—merely a surprise that a librarian would be honoured with a misinterpretation by crackpots.