On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> joanna wrote:
>> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> I knew Walter Michaels at UC Berkeley. At the time he struck me as
>> an intelligent opportunist. I suppose that probably describes 90%
>> of the people in academia....so maybe it's not worth much to
>> remark upon it.
>
> I know I'm just defending myself and my colleagues, but I must
> contest this.
Yeah. There are opportunists and hacks in every line of work. I don't see why academia gets singled out so often for criticism.
Doug