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On Dec 28, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Nick Pelling wrote:
Surely a reasonably complete scenario together with a hypothesis that can be tested (and preferably which may be demonstrated false by the same class of evidence, not just correlated) is perfectly OK science circa 2009?
You are quite correct. It should have read "reasonably complete". The problem is that we do not know what the current Enterline hypothesis is... the one that goes together with his reasonably complete scenario. The reasonably complete scenario that he published in 2002 has been shown to be awkward in several places. As he said recently (12/16), he is now willing to give up the idea that a scribe quickly retraced his non-iron ink: "I'm willing to abandon that requirement..." His hypothetical bleach-induced re-fluidization and lateral transfer mechanism to slip anatase under the black line requires that the black line be there beforehand. Abandoning a retracing leaves no realistic alternative explanation for the presence of a black overlying carbon line.
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