RE: VMs: RE: GC's first reply

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gordon wrote:

> The "hoax" theory is usually rejected on the grounds of what Dawkins calls
> "argument from personal incredulity", i.e. "I find it impossible
> to believe X".
> The problem with that is that expertise is brittle - the
> literature on expertise
> consistently reports that when experts move off their home ground, their
> performance drops rapidly to the level of lay people. An expert
> linguist may
> know a lot more about linguistics than a lay person, but that
> doesn't mean they
> are automatically an expert on hoaxing languages; likewise for
> codebreakers.

Is this Peter Dawkins you are referring to?  This certainly sounds like
something he would say...

GC



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