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Title: I beg to differ.
Review: "People seem to have expected either 1) an in depth scientific or sociological explication of 'why' people believe certain phenomenon; or 2) an academic paper, complete with lengthy citation, thesis statement, and that `in-your-face' style that one can only find in a paper in the CV of a PhD. Ladies and Gentlemen, you cannot do either of the above in 300 pages."Really? A copy of my dissertation was deposited in a basement room of the university library. When I went to visit it there, I thumbed through a fair number of fellow inmates. I don't recall even one approaching, let alone exceeding, three hundred pages. (Mine had two hundred pages; some had as few as thirty.) Scholarly papers published in academic journals are of course, as a rule, much shorter than dissertations.In any case, some of us were hoping for something a bit less off-the-cuff, a bit less slaphappy, not necessarily "scholarly". That's all.
