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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1892990" data-attributes="member: 6957">Actually it is a mark of 'ignoramous plague', nearly the exact opposite - one who decided that the academics had nothing wothwhile to say, so not bothering to learn the jargon or vocabulary. (I prefer the term 'vocaubulary' to jargon - jargon indicates an informal rather than practiced set of terms, and at root means 'nonsense' (M. English jarjoun.) Of someone remaining willfully ignorant rather than finding out what others have to say. He thought that he had created something new when what he had done is reinvent the wheel.Creationists who do not bother learning anything about evolution, and wish it banned from the books.One last thing to remember is 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof' Which is to say that if you are making an extrodinary claim 'Academic Plague is Killing RPGs!' for example, then the burden of proof is born by the claimant. So like a 'creationist' you are demanding that the same level of credibility be given to your arguments as to someone who makes more reasonable claims, such as that 'RPG sales go in cycles' must bear.Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof was coined by Carl Sagan, and is more than fitting for this occassion. I just wish that I had remembered it earlier.The Auld Grump</blockquote>