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It’s because actually determining how often average people bathed is hard, requiring evidence from many different sources across a huge time span and geographic
by mxcrossb 7y ago
It’s because actually determining how often average people bathed is hard, requiring evidence from many different sources across a huge time span and geographic area.
Instead, he went for the secret knowledge approach. People tend to believe things more if you’re telling them everyone else is wrong. The f bombs make everyone else seem even more stupid for not knowing this secret knowledge.
- LaGrange 7y agoShe's a PhD that literally teaches the stuff, and you're the person who couldn't even be bothered to read the mini-bio, not to mention the references at the end.
- jesssse 7y agoHe/she/PhD is irrelevant; the content is fwords regardless of tits or credentials.
- tom_mellior 7y agoIf she starts all of her lectures with "I cannot believe I need to explain these things to you basics", she might not be very good at teaching though.
- arkitaip 7y agoHow would you know how she teaches? One of her problems as a scholar is having ignorant geniuses claim all kinds of nonsense about the medeival times that are patently false. Her tone is to some extent a reflection of having to deal with those people.