Bonus fact - As well as being a doctor and then an author, while living in Southsea he played as goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club.
'Nother bonus fact: He based Sherlock off of one of his professors who had similar deductive reasoning.
That is kind of a dangerous idea though. It can (and has) created many falsehoods that people take as fact.
HA! In yo' face, Doyle.
I take your point, be he was talking about his Sherlock Holmes stories. Works of fiction, not journalism.
Nothing wrong with that in storytelling and works of fiction. Journalists should have different rules they work with. But this topic can very easily sway in dangerous territory that may go against forum rules, so I'm extracting myself from it now very carefully.
Right. As if the press never misrepresented the facts to suit their narrative.
Just because "everyone" does it, doesn't mean it's ok. If everyone does a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.
People respond to criticism one of two ways. Usually, 99.89% of the time, their response is to be critical back, or find a flaw in the person who criticized them. This is extremely prevalent in arguments between two people in a couple, in the business world, more so the higher you go in management, and online forums.
The rest of the time, a person listens to the criticism, honestly self analyses their behavior, decides if the criticism is valid or not, and responds as appropriate, either changing their behavior if the criticism is valid or not if the criticism is not valid.
Anyone who studies human nature and/or behavior can see immediately why the first response is so prevalent in human society. Or I should probably say, Western/Eurocentric societies.
HEY! I thought you said no politics.
And also, that using it to harm them would be a fire-able offense even if I did....
That's why you use the mind-trick after delivering the ass-whoopin'. They'll remember the pain, just not who did it.
