tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759912868753684019.post3832477455397092469..comments2009-05-21T20:51:53.564-07:00Carl Lipohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05671518366138965993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759912868753684019.post-30353224355557060982009-05-21T20:51:53.564-07:002009-05-21T20:51:53.564-07:00Are they a bad idea? I dunno either, but I enjoy reading them. It’s hard to say good or bad until the entire outcome is clear. Short term, your post may be bad (for you), although long term, they may have a positive result (again, but maybe not for you but somewhere else).<br /><br />Overall, I think these discussions are a good idea. These issues need to be talked about. <br /><br />I remember taking the social/cultural core class in grad school. One day near the early part of the term I made some comment about evolutionary approaches. The prof snidely said something like “then we would just be studying sociobiology and social Darwinism”. I don’t remember the whole context, but it was obviously a forbidden subject in any manner. Interestingly, our archaeology core class covered a range of theoretical approaches.Paul Solimanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456835824275508299noreply@blogger.com