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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4308939, member: 84744&quot;]Rob, you seem to have a special animus against academics because some of them have ticked you off one time too many.&nbsp; But for any non-expert, an academic consensus is the very best opinion we&#039;ve got, even though it will (of course) sometimes be wrong.&nbsp; I would argue that even an expert should be awfully careful to assert that any academic consensus is incorrect.&nbsp; Prefacing it with an &quot;I may be wrong, but here is how it seems to me...&quot; would seem appropriate.</p><p><br /></p><p>So academic archaeologists don&#039;t, of course, have &quot;special knowledge of the truth&quot; but we should give their opinion – when it&#039;s a consensus opinion, or close to it – a heck of a lot of weight![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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