We seem to be having some sort of grammatical problem here. I read Liza as suggesting Carrol caricatured my position. Carrol seems to think that she is referring to my comments on the position he & Schweitzer share. It does seem a bit inconsistent of Carrol here to be saying science & Medicine are cultural, whereas he was earlier uncritically accepting that CFS is purely physiological, rather than taking the more radical stance that it would be better for the status quo that CFS be physiological.
Frances sinister humanist
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Carrol Cox wrote:
> I haven't check my original post, but the following quotation is from me with an
> antecedent wrongly identified. The "She" referred NOT to Mary Schweitzer but to
> Frances, and was written in defense of Mary Schweitzer. The "Mary Schweitzer" in the
> text were the last words of the preceding sentence, which referred to Frances
> attacking Mary.
>
> Otherwise, I agree fully with this post from Lisa Featherstone. I have sometimes
> disagreed, even sharply, with Mary on femecon-l, but I would never accuse her of
> unprincipled arguments or of turning political disagreements into personal attacks.
>
> I'm sorry if my text was ambiguous on this point.
>
> Carrol
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> Liza Featherstone wrote:
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> > I'm not familiar with Frances's work but this
> >
> > > Mary Schweitzer. She is one of those humanists who [hysterically?] believes in
> > > the mumbo jumbo that leads to dividing humanity into two parts, one of which is
> > > superior to the other.
> >
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