damo123 said...
you cling to those 13% and 70% numbers with fervent appeal.
What? I posted the references once. You're also publicly telling on people, when you can simply alert
admins through the forum options? A little cringey.
Now that this thread has also been successfully crashed, let me tell an anecdote I once heard before I stop paying this anymore attention.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was a sitcom on television, and for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and it's the ongoing story about
a man named, you guessed it, Gomer Pyle, who's not dumb, but he's a very simple man from rural America who goes into the US Marine Corps, and comedy is supposed to ensue (it's debatable whether or not any comedy did ensue).
Now, sources don't always agree, but as far as I can tell, the show was in production from about
1965 until about
1970, throughout the height of the Vietnam War. I haven't seen the show very much but based on the few episodes that I have seen, and the various sources that I've read about
the show, there is never a time, in the entire production, where they mention Vietnam, or even the fact that there's a war going on.
This is a television show about
the daily lives of people in a Marine Corps infantry platoon, yet they seem to be completely oblivious to the notion that a war is going on.
The show has been out of production for approximately 50 years, but to this day, there are people who are in various fields of endeavor, such as movie and television historians, historians of other kinds, movie and television critics, sociologists, who will vilify Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton, and, who will criticize the show, for being socially irresponsible because they didn't enter the debate and discussion on the Vietnam War.
In other words, they suggest if you ignore an issue, you're being irresponsible.
If I don't directly respond to misinformation I see, I don't want other readers thinking I'm implicit in spreading it. Someone has written about
a novel therapy (who currently isn't benefiting from it in any monetary way) for refractory ulcerative colitis.
I've tried to guide the horse to water here, but it's become apparent I also need to teach it how to move its limbs.
Hopefully I've pointed out enough fallacies to make my point clear enough to distance myself from the Gomer Pyle issue going on here, and from this point on readers will know why I've had to ignore some of this stuff.