Chess One wrote:

So when issues emerge at your university and someone talks of reason, are
these the sort of reactions you have? Do you usually ignore one side of
things entirely, and issue your own views on a blatantly partisan basis?


Of course not. In such cases I am dealing with rational folks who have
no need to fabricate issues and evidence, make up languages that don't
exist, speak of dialects of which they know nothing, and are not
constantly in attack mode.

In short, the opposite of what one gets from you. You spend much time
talking about reason; you don't practice it very often. There are, of
course, a few twits like you in academia, but they rapidly are
marginalized and moved to the fringes where they cannot do much harm.
Or better yet fired, as I was once able to do with a fool like you, who
when asked by the students questions he could not answer, didn't have
the sense to appear human and say, "I don't know," but instead made up
answers so he could appear as ultimate authority. That sort of
behavior, in teaching, is unacceptable. It is your bread-and-butter.

In USENET, you can sit there and make up whatever you want, which I
suppose massages your frail ego, but don't expect anyone using even 1%
of their brain to believe it.