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Re: Is this paleoanthropology?
pete (VINCENT@reg.Triumf.CA)
20 Jul 1996 02:05:27 GMT
Mike Muller (muller@flmhh.ufl.edu) sez:
`Why is this news group debating Atlantis, Life after Death, and Lucifer.
`It is a waste of time and space to respond to such nonsense. Also it
`keeps active paleoanthropologists and and other interested parties from
`engaging in debate. Why check into this group just to read the drivel
`that has been currently posted. Can't we elevate the discussions here and
`look at controversial issues with scientific basis and not just wild
`spectulation?
Well, this is just idle speculation, but maybe it has something to do
with the recent advent of sci.archaeology.moderated, which has drawn
off the academics from the free-for-all in sci.arch. The more fervently
proselytizing wackos may now be casting about for a vaguely related
forum with an academic audience, on which to inflict their lunacy.
Then again, maybe it's just a function of the steady growth of internet
participation, as it steadily seeps down through the intellectual
strata of society... Man, this was a civil and stimulating place
five years ago (well, not this particular group, which is only
about 2 1/2 (or is it 3 1/2) years old).
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vincent@triumf.ca <== faster % Pete Vincent
vincent@vcn.bc.ca (freenet) % Disclaimer: all I know I
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