Talk:Colin Renfrew

message: We need a paragraph that refutes Lord Renfrew's very wrong understanding of historical linguistics. Lord Renfrew accepts the findings of historical linguists, but ignores their methodology; he basically tries to have his cake and eat it too. Historical linguistics is a real science, while Lord Renfrew can be accused of pseudoscience.
:Your agenda is distasteful and likely will not find many adherents here. Please feel
:free to suggest *specific* ways in which the article can be improved rather than
:try to argue a specific (and unsupportable) viewpoint on the scholar who is dealt
:with in this article. If you feel that the current wording of the article does not
:deal fairly with criticism of Baron Renfrew's published theories and ideas, then 
:you are quite welcome to add to the article. That is the nature of Wikipedia- it 
:is open to nearly anyone for editing, but it is also self-correcting, and errors 
:generally do not remain for a long period of time. 
:In sum- please contribute to the article rather than complain and do nothing 
:to help. An accusation of 'pseudoscience' is a very serious one when describing
:a scholar who has the respect of his peers as well as the obvious credentials 
:that Baron Renfrew possesses.   P.MacUidhir 05:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I may be walking into a hornet's nest here, but I used to be really frustrated with Renfrew because of his Wave of Advance theory (Out of Anatolia, 11500 BP) for the Indo-Europeans. Part of what made it so frustrating is that he was otherwise such a brilliant scholar (and one of my favorite authors), only PIE has a lot of words related to Late Neolithic technologies. However, a decade or two later I read somewhere that he retracted the theory, or at least the part connecting it to the Indo-Europeans. However, being wrong is not the same as pseudoscience. All scholars make mistakes from time to time. Zyxwv99 (talk) 18:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
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message: He is categorised as a Conservative MEP, but the article doesn't state that he was. Does anyone know if he is or was a MEP? --Mdebets (talk) 15:24, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: See proposal to move Talk:Baron of Renfrew (ship) to main subject on twodab Baron of Renfrew. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:44, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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message: > Forster, Peter; Forster, Lucy; Renfrew, Colin; Forster, Michael (8 April 2020). "Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.2004999117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 32269081.
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Even if that's really him and not just an identically named person, the relevance of this paper for the page, from the many more papers he has undoubtedly written, is not clear to me. Please make sure this is accurate. 46.114.39.10 (talk) 05:34, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The paper lists his affiliation with the McDonald Institute and the same email on his faculty page, so yes it's the same Renfrew. I assume his involvement has more to do with his expertise in phylogenetic network methods rather than virology. – Joe (talk) 07:46, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
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message: The article doesn't mention the fact that Renfrew was a trustee of the British Museum from 1991 to 2001, or his prominent role in the archaeological community in raising concerns about the looting of archaeological sites (he is the author of Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: the Ethical Crisis in Archaeology, 1999). https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmcumeds/371/0041302.htm Robert P Connolly (talk) 16:37, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Museum trustee, threat to heritage from looting