Brookswatch, Part 7: Oldies But Goodies From Virginia

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Brookswatch, Part 7: Oldies But Goodies From Virginia

By Thomas Keyes
Dec. 18, 2006

I’ve already promised not to post any more rebuttals as articles, but to confine them to the rebuttal section instead, and I will be as good as my word. However, I hope that does not prevent me from recalling a few of the gems that Dr. Brooks Mick has twinkled in our direction. I am not going to rebut them. I am just going to show them off.

The doctor really puts our credulity to the test in his article, “Teenage Memory Experience”, posted September 14, 2005. In it he claims that because, unlike the other students, he always paid attention in class, he managed to graduate medical school with only four hours of study for all four years. Here are the excerpt and the URL:

“I recall sitting with a group of medical students on our last day in medical school, and the conversation turned to lamenting the number of hours spent studying, by which they meant cramming for tests. Some were claiming hundreds, some thousands of hours. Tom Renshaw and I looked at each other and smiled and said nothing. Finally, however, someone asked us, and we both replied, “Four hours.”… “Four hours per day?” they asked…“No,” we replied, “four hours total for four years.”"

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article215.html

Let’s hope that he practices medicine as a veterinarian limited to euthanizing terminally-ill frogs.

Then, in “Learning From Chimpanzees”, posted March 7, 2005, the doctor relates how a man and his wife suffered a savage attack by a chimpanzee apparently escaped from the zoo. Because of the attack, the doctor recommends that you apply for a permit for a concealed weapon. You never know when a chimpanzee might get you. I have heard a lot of reasons why the right of individuals to carry arms should be preserved, but I have never heard any as lame or as zany as Dr. Mick’s. Maybe we should all carry Holland & Holland .700 Nitro Expresses, just in case an elephant escapes from the zoo. Here’s the URL:

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/mar/article140.html

Then in “Arabs Celebrate George W. Bush’s Victory!”, posted November 4, 2004. we learn that Dr. Mick thought that Iranians are Arabs. If the doctor devoted 4 hours to the task of mastering medicine, he must have devoted about 4 minutes to the history of Iran. Everyone knows that the Persians who appear in the Book of Esther and elsewhere in the Jewish Bible are the present-day Iranians, remote ethnically from the Arabs, though connected by a common religion.

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/articles/apr/nov070.html

I wrote an article clarifying the difference between Iranians and Arabs, and I received several pieces of e-mail from Iranians who enjoyed the article. It was even carried by two Iranian American newspapers.

So if the doctor is crowned Writer of the Year at Useless-Knowledge.Com, it will be a fitting title. So much of what he writes is completely useless.

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About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far.

I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents.

Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com

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