Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"

R. Gaenssmantel (rg10003@cus.cam.ac.uk)
10 Nov 1996 22:06:05 GMT

Ed Conrad (edconrad@prolog.net) wrote:
: ``Lucy" is nothing more than a member of the ``monkey" family,
: with no connection -- none whatsoever -- to early man.
: The dreamers and hallucinators who led the ``expeditionary" team
: are well aware of the fraud they had attempted to perpetrate by
: claiming it to be a missing link.
: Fact is, the few bits and pieces of what they called ``Lucy" -- to go
: with the vast majority of manmade bonelike additions that were used to
: fill the many gaps -- weren't even found in close proximity.
: Truth is, ``Lucy" is a mosaic of a few bones that were found over a
: square mile.
: To put it rather bluntly, ``Lucy" is a mockery of scientific
: integrity (if some still exits in the field of physical anthropology,
: which I sort of doubt)).

I see, Ed, you do have a sense of humour after all!
Why don't you elaborate a bit more and enter into competition with the
Reverend Colonel Ignatius Churchward Von Berlitz M.A. (Dom. Sci.) Oxon.
(Oklahoma) ?

Ralf

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