I reply merely because I apparently started this diatribe by mentioning Chomsky, not because postings recommending "www.realclearscience.com" and Bangor University professors is worthy of remark.

There continues to be much academic debate about all modern 'cognitive neurosciences', understandably so and thankfully so.

There is no debate about Chomsky's contribution to the field of linguistics; there is much debate about how new discoveries act to undermine some of his theories. Welcome to science.

We don't fault Freud for being 'wrong' as cognitive science has evolved to transform psychology, nor should we.

Attacks on Chomsky linguistics are akin to attacks on Marx's economics. The passion of the attacks are indicative of the political nature of the individuals, not their academic contributions, not the academic qualifications of the impassioned self-identified 'debunkers'.