A hoot for sure. I'm glad I'm not the only one to receive such a rant. I once let somebody look at one of my tree's that I make for our Glover Surname Project, (which I normally keep private), and I had made a note that a man who had been married 3 times evidently did not count his short lived first marriage, since he only claimed to have been married twice on his 1900 census.  She then twisted it around  and said that I must have said that the child born of this marriage did not count and how dare I say that this because this child was such a noble flag waving red white and blue citizen yada yada yada.  I was really in shock as to the vehemency of her long tirade.   I wrote back and essentially told her she was a nut and not to ever write back to me again.  I'm assuming that maybe she was PMSing, but your guy has no such excuse.   Wendy On Sunday, June 8, 2014 9:36 AM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <DianaGM@dgmweb.net> wrote: > From: Elizabeth Britton > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2014 9:52 AM > To: y-dna-haplogroup-i@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [yDNAhgI] Am I in error regarding RASEY-RAZEE non-match? > > > Well, the *really* mature thing for me to have done here would probably have > been to hit my Del key and ignore the message entirely.  I partly thought > y'all might get a hoot out of it because it's so hard to believe this guy has > the knowledge of genetics he claims. > > ******************* > > I did.  How ironic--a Ph.D biologist-- I assume he doesn't know your > background? > > Lindsey The rub is that appeals to authority are a logical fallacy to begin with, something I would assume an educated person would know, so not use one.  The issue has to be whether the conclusions drawn from the test results are valid - and if not, why not - not over the credentials of who made them.  He didn't address the actual issue, at all.  I mean, if he thinks a GD of 16 at 67 markers (30 at 111 markers) is a match, he needs to give the basis for such an assertion, not just tell me I'm wrong. Diana ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

PMSing? For heavens sake, let's not perpetuate that lame stereotype of an excuse. I've never "PMS'd" in my life, and I've never met a woman who did. Did I accuse this guy of "testosterone poisoning"? Rudeness and illogical thinking are not gender disorders, they're educational deficits. Diana > From: wendy quinlan > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2014 1:33 PM > To: y-dna-haplogroup-i@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [yDNAhgI] Am I in error regarding RASEY-RAZEE non-match? > <snip> > I wrote back and essentially told her she was a nut and not to ever write back > to me again.  I'm assuming that maybe she was PMSing, but your guy has no such > excuse.