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Re:The agricultural revolution that wasn't by hotaru29 on Saturday August 09, 2014 @10:23PM (#8158640)
Why do you reject the person's website out of hand because you found one thing that does not agree with your worldview? The goal of science is to challenge our worldview and assumptions (whether we like it or not).

A quick google scholar search shows that the person has a quite strong publication record:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Peter+Frost&btnG=&...

I won't dismiss a person who wrote articles/books with citation counts of 500+ out of hand.

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Re:The agricultural revolution that wasn't by slurry on Saturday August 09, 2014 @10:34PM (#8158655)
I take a person's website with a big grain of salt out of hand if they link to a lot of HBD blogs like hbdchick and Steve Sailer. "Take with a grain of salt" is not the same thing as "reject...out of hand".

I later reject his argument after examining it cursorily and directing some half-ass arguments of my own at it. Not out of hand though

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Re:The agricultural revolution that wasn't by _delirium on Saturday August 09, 2014 @10:28PM (#8158649)
The author may have written good articles, but I would rather have one of those submitted than the linked blog post, which is not a piece of well-supported scientific writing.
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