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Amazing. Chomsky is a legend. Who are you exactly? Ignoring his entire career to simply dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist. Ignorance and apathy like your

• twoodfin 13y ago
  I'm not ignoring his entire career. He's one of the towering intellectuals of the 20th Century, and his work in linguistics has positively influenced a range of fields. But his views on politics and world affairs are extremely eccentric, and have remained on the fringe for a reason.
  • flyinRyan 13y ago
    >and have remained on the fringe for a reason. Yea, for the same reason people who claimed the US was spying on everyone remained on the fringe.... until we had a bunch of evidence of it dropped on us.
    • Ihmahr 13y ago
      Also, Chomsky's work is always backed by an incredible amount of evidence. Edit: I can not over emphasize 'incredible amount of evidence.'
      • twoodfin 13y ago
        Don't confuse footnotes with evidence.
  • enraged_camel 13y ago
    >>But his views on politics and world affairs are extremely eccentric, and have remained on the fringe for a reason. They have remained on the fringe because most people would rather tell themselves that things are generally okay.
• kbolino 13y ago
  And what has ignorance of basic logical fallacies like "appeal to authority" caused? Chomsky is a legendary linguist, a rightly deserved reputation, but that doesn't give him automatic credibility outside of linguistics.