humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 26, 9:38=A0pm, "John W. Kennedy" wrote:
> bobgrum...@nut-n-but.net wrote:
> > One huge difference between Freud and Looney is that Freud was
> > inventing answers to questions not effectively answered whereas Looney
> > was inventing answers to a question long effectively enough answered
> > to satisfy everyone in the field that further answers were
> > unnecessary. =A0Same difference exists between Wegener and Looney--but
> > another exists there, too--that Wegener was vindicated.
>
> /Part/ of his theory was vindicated, by scientists who bumped into it
> while working in an unrelated area. Much of it remains nonsense.
>
> --
> John W. Kennedy

True. I meant that what was the important part of his theory to me
was vindicated. I'm not sure I'd call the parts of it that were wrong
nonsense, either. But I'm vague about what he said now. Am reading
The Dark Side of the Earth to try to recover my understanding of it.
A problem is that there were so many theories bouncing around, it's
hard to get get a good grasp of any one of them.

--Bob G.