ChewbaccaD said:
...yea, a sense of disdain...
....quite possible, but given the quality and quantity of the "Really important and valuable contributions" that populate this thread it may not be that much out of line, in fact it may be a most reasonable response ( something btw we can both be accused of doing the very same on these very pages...)....
...that being said, Dr. Coggan seems to have, for any number of reasons, irritated a fair number of people on this thread....as HJ pointed out earlier in his perfect little summary, the man has trouble with criticism, but we all knew that...and I will bet that he even gets more wound up when he has to deal with "know-nothing peasants" ( a term I often use in my particular field of expertise....a field where the science is quite sketchy and every idiot has an opinion he hangs onto with a death grip....so sometimes things can get heated and sometimes the patina of civility vanished immediately and one heads straight for the jugular because you don't want to deal with idiots yet again )...
....and btw exercise physiology is a field with a history of sketchy science and an audience that has more than its fair share of know-nothing peasants....within academia EP doesn't have a big reputation and everybody dumps on it ( you know how academia can be )....so on top of being a TT'er, which in itself is usually a red flag, the guy is in a field that gets no respect ( and he works in a medical faculty full of doctor gods ....btw his situation academically is exactly the same as that currently "enjoyed" by my wife's and being the fighter she is, the chip on her shoulder has got bigger not smaller...so bring up certain topics you get certain responses, some bad, some awful but usually quite justified ) so maybe he is just a driven self-centred guy who has developed an allergic reaction to critics and he has an ego....big deal...like so different from everybody else on this forum?...
...I frankly enjoy his postings, and having been in academia I realize that his is just another opinion ( academia is full of opinions and dissent, discussion and debate is not only the norm but encouraged....)....so he can be wrong at times but again he could be right, especially when you are careful and ask the right question....
....of course, your mileage may vary....
Cheers