<x-rich><fixed>Jonathan posted:
I'm back on the list. What is BCC meteorites about? I have heard a lot about it and read their site but I still don't understand. Odd.
Dear Jonathan and Fellow Listees:
Jonathan, yes you are absolutely right. It is very "odd" and nobody else understands their site either because their site is nonsense.
I would like all my fellow List members to be made aware of something important: These BCC "Meteorites" characters filed an actual lawsuit against a number of prominent, respected and very well-liked senior meteoriticists here in the U.S (one of whom is a personal friend of mine). The suit was -- of course -- thrown out by the judge for being utterly frivolous. It's just too bad these clowns weren't heavily fined for wasting court time.
BCC "Meteorites" seems to believe that there's some kind of high-level conspiracy/cover-up going on between NASA and major meteoritical institutions -- all because BCC "Meteorites" have been told (nicely and repeatedly) that the junk items they dig out of their bog, or whatever, in Texas are not actually fossilized alien brains, UFO warp core spare parts, Lunar meteorites, Dick Tracy wrist watch radios, etc., but just plain old dull terrestrial rocks. I think we all enjoy a good eccentric, and the whole thing would have been somewhat amusing in a "Benny Hill" sort of way if these guys hadn't been really nasty to some really nice people during their imaginary scientific journey.
We have our squabbles on the List from time to time, but we are all united in our interest in the SCIENCE of meteoritics. The technobabble/gobbledygook pseudo-science offered up on the BCC "Meteorites" website -- and written, I might add, in appalling elementary school English so laden with spelling errors and grammatical mistakes that you couldn't follow their argument even if it *were* sound -- should not be allowed promotion here on the Meteorite List. Novice collectors, still learning about meteorites, might be hoodwinked into believing some of the fatuous claims that are made on the BCC website.
So, I strongly suggest that we -- as a community -- block the email addresses of these guys DeRusse and Cutler immediately and permanently. They just want attention, and the best way to eradicate this kind of fake science rubbish is to ignore the perpetrators entirely. They'll likely get bored and wander off to some UFO conspiracy theory/Creationist mailing list of which -- unfortunately -- there are probably several. A request from a few of you to List Moderator Art Jones ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) to have them removed from the List wouldn't hurt either.
Oh, and BTW, if you look at the first photo on their website, the guy with the white gloves looks like "Dr. No." : )
Not at all respectfully,
Geoff Notkin
Science writer interested in actual science and real meteorites</fixed></x-rich>
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