Michael Young publicly muses about the relevance of the public musing profession.
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|11.3.05 @ 2:16PM|#
"And what does it tell us about the respondents that in the top 20 there is only one scientist, Bjorn Lomborg?"
I thought you wrote that Richard Dawkins was in the top five? He's a scientist isn't he? Wasn't E.O. Wilson also on the list? Not sure where though.
|11.3.05 @ 3:18PM|#
And wouldn't Jared Diamond be a scientist as well? He is an anthropologist isn't he? Is my idea of what a scientist is screwed up?
|11.3.05 @ 3:23PM|#
Good catch. We've contacted Young and excised that sentence.
Peter K.|11.3.05 @ 4:12PM|#
I voted for Terry Schiavo, our very own Chauncy Gardner.
What morons wrote in Bill Clinton? Joe?
|11.3.05 @ 4:23PM|#
Way off topic here. But this seems like a pretty slow post so I figured it'd be the ideal one to go off topic on. This is coming from that combat classics jiu jitsu ad on the right hand side of hit and run.
"Dear Friend,
You read about it every day. Another violent assault. Another outrage against some law-abiding citizen.
Beat up. Crippled. Maimed. Killed.
Or even worse."
I found this hilarious. Is this supposed to be a joke? Even worse than getting killed?
Once again, sorry for being way off topic.
|11.4.05 @ 6:43AM|#
emme, I think the "even worse" is Deliverance-style homosexual rape. Just a guess.
|11.4.05 @ 8:40AM|#
Yes, sexual violation of any sort is traditionally "a fate worse than death." At least as a euphemism in melodramatic fiction.
Then US social attitudes toward rape got an overhaul in the 1970s, and a bit more compassionate, and that concept pretty much got dustbinned, 'cause it kind of makes it harder for the victim of a sexual assault to deal with the incident.
Although in some cultures the victim of a sexual assualt is considered to be better off dead. Cf. "honor killings."
|11.4.05 @ 9:15AM|#
just because Oprah has gotten more people to read than any of the people on the top of the list, doesn't make her a public intellectual. I would think a public intellectual has to actually generate new ideas for the public to consume. does Oprah do that? has she written anything herself? she's a disseminator of other's ideas, not her own. that's not to denigrate what she does, but it doesn't make her a public intellectual.
Ed|11.4.05 @ 10:11AM|#
Where can I find a list that lists the best polls and categorizes the best and most relevant lists by poll ranking?
Really, this is very important to me.
|11.4.05 @ 11:43AM|#
Since a few of the posters and many of the staff at reason.com have produced new ideas and made me think in new ways shouldn't ya'll be considered public musers?
And if you folks are public muisers, then why is the public paying big bucks for a Chomsky when we have a joe?
|11.4.05 @ 10:11PM|#
How many times in the last fifty years have you seen the words "intellectual," and "Los Angeles" in the same sentence?