Atheists & Agnostics

and assume these people are Rousseau's noble savages, living in a state of nature and perfect happiness. There are only 400 or so of them left due to disease and likely loss of territory. Who knows? Maybe the school, the clinic and a bare minimum of mod cons including a latrine for sanitation will help them increase their numbers and thus their territory, improving their odds of having their people survive longer term.

As for the shunning of linguistic unorthodoxy, this happens over every branch of study and reflects a mindset that the answers have been found so hallelujah, we only have to learn those and skip all the hard work it took to come up with them. Some people are just plain lazy like that and get monumentally offended when some upstart comes along, pokes holes in the theories, and then has the audacity to prove his case. Eventually he wins, but usually not until he's old and grey. Chomsky's role is to defend his toeory, so don't be too hard on him. The acolytes are the lazy buggers.