Andre Wakefield speaks at Alumni Reunion Weekend

[scottfunkhouser]

My physics cred's were listed to show the foolishness of your insults against my intelligence.

I note that you did not provide any rebut to my point.

That is not surprising since my points were correct.

Good riddance...

[zebediahtaynor]

Rebuttal assumes that both parties are interested in real debate. You, however, operate only at the level of sound bites. (Your childish and repeated use of "sozialist" being a good example.) You may not watch FOX News, but you should. There, and on the am dial, you will find your kindred spirits.

[scottfunkhouser]

Yes, another nazional sozialist coward slinks away from debate....

[zebediahtaynor]

Thank you for reaffirming my point.

[zebediahtaynor]

You, sir, are either very young or very foolish (though I suspect both, so perhaps it will pass). Only someone young and foolish would believe that publication in physics makes him some kind of expert in history; it is a subject whose intricacies clearly elude you.

Get back to me when you grow up.

Best,

Z. Taynor

[zebediahtaynor]

Sirs. I must object to the notion (suggested in this exchange) that "Hitler was a socialist." This is absurd, and reflects deep ignorance of the past. As Austin Cline nicely puts it: "Many conservatives insist that the Nazis were an example of a 'socialist' government . . . This is rather like using the example of East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, to discredit democracy: it demonstrates the speaker's inability to comprehend reality."

Best,

Z. Taynor

[scottfunkhouser]

No, Z. Taynor, your denial of the obvious historical fact that Hitler was a 100% sozialist demonstrates inability to comprehend reality.

Just off the top of my head, please refer to the NYTimes article by David Leonhardt on 31March2009 in the business section "Stimulus Thinking, and Nuance".

Here is another one:

If Hitler was not a socialist, then what word best describes his economic policy and the policy of his nazi (National Sozialist) government)?

[zebediahtaynor]

No Mr. Funkhouser.

Hitler's economic policy (as any well-informed college freshman will tell you) was neomercantilist. But that appears to be too big a term for you to comprehend. I had mistakenly assumed that this was an academic discussion. I see that I have stumbled on FOX News where I least expected to find it. Sad days indeed.

Z. Taynor

[AndreWakefield]

Dear Mr. Funkhouser:

This (quoting people out of context, abusing students, hurling egregious insults) is beneath even you. Please stop.

I hope you are well.

Best,

Andre Wakefield

[scottfunkhouser]

Dear Mr. Wakefield,

(1) I took nothing out of context.  You claimed emphatically and unequivocally Hitler was not a socialist. Quack, quack.

(2)Your accusation that I have been "abusing students" is libelous and I intend to pursue legal action against you.

(3) I feel entitled to hurl plenty of egregious insults, particularly given the manner in which you hurled egregious insults at me when I corrected your claim that Hitler was not a socialist.

[miguellaosantina]

Mr. Funkhouser. I see that you have tried to erase your reply to me, the one in which you insulted all of us dumb ass "Pitzerites." Nice try, but I have it. It is a nice piece of verbal abuse. You must feel very . . . small.

[scottfunkhouser]

????

I tried to erase nothing. I have no regrets about my comments. Your quack-nut claims simply confirm what I think.

[miguellaosantina]

"Quack-nut claims" is libelous and I intend to pursue legal action against you. What an idiot you are.

[duronski]

this might be the most brilliant man I've heard in my life.

[scottfunkhouser]

ROTFLMGDMFAO. You must not have heard very many men in your life, duronski.

[Walleyepikeman]

You are a sad, bitter, little man M. Scott Armel Funkhouser. Crawl back under your rock.

[scottfunkhouser]

No, I'm pretty sure that I'm publishing regularly, riding the waves, making music and loving life. I just happen to enjoy making sure that people who have ruined the academy will be held accountable.

Why don't you crawl out from under the desk where you are hiding and defend Wakefield's claim that Hitler was not a socialist?

[Walleyepikeman]

Riding the waves, making music, and obsessively posting on any web site where you can nurse old grudges. Nobody cares. Nobody believes you. You have no credibility. Sad. Very sad.

[scottfunkhouser]

If nobody cares, why do you respond?

If you think my statements about Wakemen are false then then feel free to sue me. Plenty of people believe me when I show them the e-mails Wakeman sent claiming Hitler was not a socialist.

Finally, I have plenty of credibility, and in the past year I have published four papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Go crawl back under your desk, you sniveling little coward.

[miguellaosantina]

What people here remember is how Wakefield repeatedly bitch slapped you over the public email system. I guess it still hurts.

[scottfunkhouser]

First of all, Pitzer is a private "school", and the emails were not public. But, that fact that you were affiliated with Pitzer explains perhaps your confusion about words and stuff.

Perhaps you could demonstrate how Wakefield "bitch slapped" me by presenting a cogent argument against identifying Hitler as a socialist. My guess is that you, like Wakefield and many of the other shit-for-brains Pitzerites, will substitute insults for reason.

[duronski]

you wish you could say the same about your moms punk!

[scottfunkhouser]

Why do people listen to this quack?  He is on the record as claiming that Hitler wasn't a socialist. Does academic malpractice get any worse?