Talk:Shakespeare authorship question/Archive 1

Mav removed the Asimov comment questioning his authority; I restored it. A talented and prolific writer and scientist like Asimov is certainly qualified to comment on the likely habits of another author/scientist, and the comment is a very good one, authorities aside. Good information is good information, credentials be damned. --LDC

Yeah, credentials be damned. Otherwise we wouldn't have a Wikipedia at all! And Asimov's collected works are pretty much an encyclopedia all by themselves, plus a lot of good fiction.

That said, the quoted comment isn't the brightest thing he ever said. After all, "Even Homer nods." There are anachronisms in all sorts of published works. There's a clock in Julius Caesar too, and even an out-of-town wool merchant would have known that clocks were invented after Caesar. Ortolan88 21:05 Aug 16, 2002 (PDT)

On second read the sentence doesn't seem that out of place. However lets not stray too far and buy into the logical fallacy of Appeal to authority. This is the exact type of thing user:MichaelTinkler left over. BTW, I know of a few PhD physicists and economists that think evolution is a load of bunk. I say, so what? --mav