[flyinRyan]

Amazing. Chomsky is a legend. Who are you exactly? Ignoring his entire career to simply dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist. Ignorance and apathy like yours is why the US has fallen into the hole it's in now.

[twoodfin]

I'm not ignoring his entire career. He's one of the towering intellectuals of the 20th Century, and his work in linguistics has positively influenced a range of fields.

But his views on politics and world affairs are extremely eccentric, and have remained on the fringe for a reason.

[flyinRyan]

>and have remained on the fringe for a reason.

Yea, for the same reason people who claimed the US was spying on everyone remained on the fringe.... until we had a bunch of evidence of it dropped on us.

[Ihmahr]

Also, Chomsky's work is always backed by an incredible amount of evidence.

Edit: I can not over emphasize 'incredible amount of evidence.'

[twoodfin]

Don't confuse footnotes with evidence.

[enraged_camel]

>>But his views on politics and world affairs are extremely eccentric, and have remained on the fringe for a reason.

They have remained on the fringe because most people would rather tell themselves that things are generally okay.

[kbolino]

And what has ignorance of basic logical fallacies like "appeal to authority" caused?

Chomsky is a legendary linguist, a rightly deserved reputation, but that doesn't give him automatic credibility outside of linguistics.