"Well, I´ve done a lot of university teaching, and I regret very much to say that I´ve seen more than one hopeless case given a degree just to get rid of him"

Well that´s a scary thought.

I would have to agree, at least from my preliminary investigation Phelps seems to be a little unbalanced. My point earlier in the thread is that it is bad investigation to trust implicitly something somebody says unless they are indeed qualified to say it.

I think many people use other people´s words when they debate instead of using their own brains--and that applies to both sides of any issue. If you can´t paraphrase an idea in your own words you can´t say you understand your own arguments.