In another thread, Jim McGinn wrote:
 > John, eventually you're going to have to come to
 > terms with the fact that there are no problems with
 > your thinking/writing for which the solution is
 > wider circulation.  The problems with your
 > evolutionary thinking/writing are the result of
 > shortcomings in your approach.  They aren't going to
 > be solved by creating a new venue.
 >
 > What's really ironic about all of this John is that
 > I don't think you fully comprehend that under the
 > constrainsts of peer-review you won't get away with
 > misusing other people's ideas (Darwin, Popper) the
 > way you've done so casually here.

Jim McGinn wrote:

 > Once again, John, you've mananged to misrepresent
 > somebody's thinking.  In this instance I'm the
 > victim.  Normally your victims are Darwin, Mendel,
 > and Popper.

...Newton, Einstein, Godel, Hardy & Weinberg, you name it.

McGinn is misconstruing the problem with Edser's posts.
If Edser's "approach" has "shortcomings", it presumably
can be corrected 
by getting another "approach"; if Edser is "misusing other people's 
ideas", he can stop doing so and use them correctly; if Edser is 
misrepresenting somebody's thinking, he can correct the problem by 
representing it faithfully.

The problem is not some correctable failure of approach or use or 
representation. It doesn't involve a voluntary act at all. The problem 
is a chronic inability to understand what is written on the printed 
page, and spontaneously to substitute some absurdly distorted creation 
of imagination for the real underlying idea. Nothing is so easy to 
understand that Edser cannot make a hash of it - Hardy-Weinberg 
equilibrium, Hamilton's rule, Special Relativity, Set Theory, Godel's 
theorem, the list is endless.

The idea that his "critique" of hamilton's rule is appropriate for 
publication, as some have recommended, is absurd. I detect a certain 
anticipation of schadenfreude in those who encourage him to submit a ms 
to the Journal of Theoretical Biology. It won't happen anyway, since he 
has apparently designated sbe as his one and only audience, even though 
he appears never to have convinced anyone here of anything, except his 
own irremediable obtuseness.
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