Date: 15 Nov 1994 06:00:31 GMT
From: John Collier 
Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
Subject: Re: Academic postings . . .

Gil Hardwick (gil@landmark.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
: Can anyone answer these questions for me, concerning the individual at
: the centre of the scandals at UWA whose rampage in the end managed to
: rock the entire academic world, had lawyers sent after me chasing
: (in vain) so much money on his behalf, and made such a mess of so many
: other promising Australian students' careers. 

The judgment was against you, Gil. You lost in the courts. Do
you really take pride in hiding your assets? As that a little 
victory for you, breaking the law of the land? Do you think the
law on slander is wrong, or do you just think you've been had
in particular?

: Please tell me; if his "original and creative" work in Evolutionary
: Theory were so very highly regarded in the US as certain letters to
: the Vice Chancellor would have us to believe, why was there so much
: support _over there_ for having him secure tenure _over here_, at UWA?

Now, if you had followed what was going on in your local press, 
you'd know that the issue involves an attempted coverup of
sexual indiscretion on the part of a certain female that Rindos
blew the whistle on. The issue has come up in the state Parliament,
and yours is only the first of a number of court cases that will
probably go to Rindos. Had you paid attention to the judge who
gave a settlement against you to Rindos, you would have known 
this. Or perhaps you just believe the judge was either an ass,
or else part of Rindos' conspiracy against you?

: Away around here _at the other side of the planet_, and very plainly
: against the wishes of our own academics? 

There were academics in Australia who wrote as well. There are
just fewer of us available to judge work of the stature of 
Rindos' work.

: Was it really so difficult to find him tenure somewhere in the US? Or
: do you people think maybe that our State funding arrangements make
: Australian Universities easy pickings for your rejects?

You should know that he does not want to find work in the US, since
his mate lives in Australia, and US law would not permit him to
accompany Rindos to the US. Rindos is caught here by his love
and prejudicial laws that exist in most countries.

: Or was it maybe that his work is just a load of unmitigated, bourgeois
: codswallop right from go to woe? The natural consequence being that
: you don't want him there either.

: Is that IN FACT the case?

What intellectual dishonesty you exhibit in the above, Gil.
Are you completely beyond shame?


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John Collier 			
Philosophy -- U. of Newcastle		  	
Callaghan, NSW, AUSTRALIA 2038