>If there's one weakest I've witnessed in academia is its tendancy to
>overly defend one's particular discipline, often resorting to character
>assassination to dispel the disciplines of others because they can't
>adequately articulate why their approach is of more value
perhaps just because it would exemplify this "going for the man, not the
ball" approach (to use a rugby term), people here have politely declined
to comment on weddle's breezy book on peckinpah...
