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Re: REVEALED (at long last!) Ed Conrad's academic background and qualifications
Maria G. Corral (mcorral@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:54:42 -0600
Ed you did not answer the question. What is your educational/scientific
background
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Ed Conrad wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, "henry l. barwood" <hbarwood@indiana.edu>
> wrote to talk.origins, etc.:
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> >John M. Feiereisen wrote:
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> >Snip
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> >Speaking of T&E (Ted Holden and Ed Conrad):
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> >> Does anybody know anything about their educational or work
> >> backgrounds? Does either of these guys have any sort
> >> of scientific background? What kind of qualifications
> >> do these guys have?
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> I cannot speak for Ted Holden but, in response to the question
> of MY academic qualifications, may I state -- rather emphatically and
> with a certain degree of pride -- that I have spent a certain amount
> of time in FIVE different universities in TWO different countries.
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> I have been through the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State
> University; as well as McGill University, Concordia University and the
> University of Montrea (French), all in Montreal, Canada.
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> Unfortunately, I really didn't have time to learn anything because I
> had a rather brief stay.
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> I was there only long enough to walk in the front door, cause some
> type of panic disorder and/or nervous twitch among resident
> anthropologists and/or paleontologists after showing them some
> of my petrified bones, then rather unceremoniously directed
> to the back door.
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> If this means anything academically, I also would like to point out
> that I had spent some time on the campus of Johns Hopkins University
> (its School of Medicine in downtown Baltimore).
>
> Unfortunately, Allan Walker, their so-called expert on prehistoric
> teeth, didn't even have the courtesy to invite me inside (even though
> I had driven two hours for our scheduled appointment).
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> We conducted all of our business out of the trunk of my car (after the
> parking lot attendant phoned Walker to inform him that ``Ed Conrad has
> arrived," then somberly ordered me to back up and double-park on the
> street).
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> I guess that does it.
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> Of course, I think I may have been academically enlightened by being
> in the company -- on three or four different occasions --of Wilton
> Krogman, author of ``The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine," and the
> time I had the great fortune of spending an entire day in the company
> of Raymond Dart, M.D.
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> But I guess that doesn't count academically since we were never inside
> any hallowed halls.
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