On 31/05/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
I think it's righteous, for several reasons: bragging rights about Jews' valuable contributions, clear evidence that Jews don't run everything, or even much, and links to interesting accomplished people. There are all kinds of ways to go wrong with this list, but I'm sure the article does not suffer from want of watchers.
I fear my point got a little lost.
The list is just as legitimate as any other list of two intersecting groups is (we no doubt have "List of French mathematicians" around somewhere, same idea). It's just the *descriptive note* at the top that makes it seem... not quite right.
No?