-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 7/7/99 2:24:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> In science, every tired old paradigm was once a radical new paradigm -
> and scientists advance not by kissing old orthodox ass, but by coming
> up with SOLID evidence for NEW ass-kicking insights. In the US, the
> "recalcitrant Archelogical/Anthropological community" has undergone
> about a dozen major, tectonic paradigm shifts this century - it's
> hardly static. But before any orthodoxy gets twisted, there has to
> be sufficient strong evidence - not just dribs and drabs, not just
> scattered fragments in different contexts, but something consistent
> that withstands critical scrutiny. Conspiratorialists & UFOlogists
> especially have a hard time dealing with these standards, as do
> attorneys and screenwriters. Meditate on the old Jewish saying:
>
> "For instance" is not proof.
While this may be so, it is a fact that other sites where "hard evidence" of
man's earlier habitation of North America has been discovered, have been
derided by the "recalcitrant Archeological/Anthropological community".
Sheguianda, and several sites in Mexico and South America come to mind. The
people who did the field work followed the same rigorous scientific method as
those who dismiss them, but that is not good enough in some cases. Comparing
this state of affairs to UFOlogy and the like is counterproductive, because
we are talking about established scientists with results of hard physical
evidence, which UFOlogy is sorely lacking.
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