I was a professor of biochemistry for roughly half of my career at the Universities of Wisconsin and Kansas. I was also head of the Cell Biology program at the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C. for two years and for most of the remainder I was head of research and development for a couple of large pharmaceutical companies.

i thought this was a venue for ideas and rational discussion, not some childish military game of perceived attrition by the self-appointed self-important ones who attempt to “wear the enemy down” by offering little of substance except annoyance, distraction and background noise.

better to just ignore them and keep your soul intact

” CSAPs and bond item are two different issues “,

is all about how wonderful, and how educated jef is, and the stellar intelligence of his offspring.

It has nothing to do with the actual topic under discussion.

I know better, but it so much fun egging him on sometimes.

I apologize to the rest of the members for my selfish attitude.

That must mean that he got a ‘great’ education, and anybody that went to a ‘not great’ university doesn’t possess a superior intellect.

Bummer.

I guess that ’splains why all us hicks is so dumb and can’t unnerstand nuthin’….

well golly gee.

He taught at them too, which helps explain some more questions that I wasn’t going to ask.

Not in the great universities I attended and taught. Perhaps in places like Bob Jones “University”. Did you go to a school like that?

So what she learned was not the more modern, fashionable version of rewritten history.

She also learned manners from the same era by authors with a desire to write down real stuff instead of “I wish this what had really happened” written down by, apparently, the authors of books they gave you to study in college.

Glad to hear your gdaughter is in a “liberal” college whatever that means. However, a good university has a way of making us reexamine our assumptions and beliefs. So you may be somewhat disappointed in your expectations after your gDaughter has been exposed to the great ideas of the world.

In my own case, coming from an ultra conservative small town background and a fundamentalist father, I was more than a little shocked to find that my mentors, especially the religious ones, had been-shall we say- somewhat less than truthful about the history and state of the world. The university taught me to question assumptions based on nothing but faith and look at the actual documented evidence. I am now like most scientists a confirmed skeptic. I try not to use the term “believe” since that implies acceptance on faith. I accept nothing on faith. I require evidence. I either know that something is likely to be true based on available evidence or I do not know. I have no problems with anyone else choosing to accept ideas on faith so long as they do not try to convince the rest of us that their faith based notions constitute truth.