Originally posted by Pierre
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You posted on this site. A forum for those interested in the subject of the Whitechapel murders of 1888.
The questions you are asked are those from this forum; not an academic department, your answers should therefore address that forum in language used on that forum.
This is something you seriously fail to understand. One tailors ones presentation to the audience, most academics from what ever discipline accept and understand that.
To say Ripperology is not a field of study is to defy reality.
Ripper studies or Ripperology as you call it, is certainly not an academic discipline, such is a simple truth.
However it is a legitimate historical area of interest, with its own experts, it is therefore a field of study for those involved.
To say it is not is to deny what is clear to all accept those who see science and knowledge as The property of an elite.
The same denial which says if you publish a document which names someone as the killer in 1888 Whitechapel that publication cannot be termed a "suspect book".
Cheers
Steve
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