...and it's one of my favorites (which I owe to another). When a government agent goes looking for counterfeit currency, is he accused of being anti-money? No, he very much wants to preserve the real thing.

Would that clear-cut sort of thinking were more universal. Believe me, I know more than I want to know how that plays out in real life. I see it play out in archaeology and biblical studies alike, as the occasional attendee of and speaker at various conferences. There are those who make honest mistakes, there are those who are out to grind an axe no matter what absurdities that sort of dishonesty leads to, and there are a surprising number in the audience who can't tell the difference between the two.

What I mean is, it's one thing to be anti-intellectual, and it's another thing to be anti-pseudo-intellectual. Denny tries to be the latter, not the former.

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