[robg]

Funny how Chomskyan approaches to Linguistics and Syntax require their own indoctrination and belief system and "the most exotic information and understanding about all kind of arcane issues".

Meanwhile, statistical approaches continue to win in the real world.

[zep15]

I think there's some truth to what you say about Chomskyan linguistics being dogmatic. But linguists aren't really playing the same game as the people in (e.g.) statistical machine translation, so it's hard to say the latter are "winning". Chomskyan linguistics is also just one of the various competing traditions in linguistics.