Re: MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL (A human skull as old as coal!)
Ian Tresman (ian@knowledge.co.uk)
Sat, 02 Nov 1996 20:56:26 GMT
"Michael D. Painter" <mpainter@maxinet.com> wrote:
>That hardly applies here. Had Scientific American gone to the site, watched
>the flight, and then published the above their might be a comparison.
>Conrad has had his rocks investigated by a number of people, people HE
>picked.
>How many such incidents have occurred since 1906? That was a while back.
Yes Scientific American could have gone to the site, but didn't. Yes,
it may have been a while back. A more recent example is cold fusion
where Pons and Fleischmann were accused of all manner of crimes in the
press. Yet Eneco now have a European patent on Pons-Fleischmann
technology.
Ian.
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