Hello Eric, list , -
4 min. 26 sec. - wow, that's what one calls a profound research.
Well, it's quite simple. There does exist the magic word "verification". Or,
other way round, with Karl Popper, "falsification". Both ways are suitable
and should belong to a scientific as well as a sufficient journalistic
armamentarium. At least if you're a NYT journalist. One might think.
Nevertheless, it's a shame. And the combination of ignorance, prejudice and,
regarding Dr. Harvey (hopefully not the patron of the H. awards), obviously
something like image neurosis ('cause he knows it better of sure) makes it a
double shame.
If those people would look into the nightly sky some nights and realize the
passage through time and space of a meteorite before it lands on this
sandcorn of a planet, perhaps to arrive in the hands of one of us: the
sandcorn of a sandcorn - they would think and behave different.
Regards,
Matthias
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NYT story
I was driving home on Friday when a guy called and identified himself as
a reporter from the NY Times. He said he talked to this scientist (I
didn't catch the name) who thought collectors were bad for meteorite
studies and then he said he talked to Anne Black and she said that was
B*** S***! I remember thinking that I doubted Anne used that phrase ;-)
He asked me about gebel kamil and exporting it from Egypt. I told him I
knew of no law in Egypt that even mentions meteorites let alone making
export illegal. I told him that there were laws about artifacts, but they
don't mention meteorites and meteorites are not artifacts. I never said I
thought I was "beyond" Egyptian law because my gebel kamil was purchased
in the USA, I just didn't know of any law that applied. Conversation
ended quickly after that. The photo of the "looted" 60 gram piece is not
one of mine.
I was surprised to be the featured bad guy/dealer in the article.
According to my cell phone the whole conversation lasted only 4 minutes
and 26 seconds. The response on my end has been rather quiet, 3 new
customers, 2 people who wanted their hematite identified as a meteorite,
one guy from the Harvard business school who thought we should get with
the scientists and come up with a classification system because that would
make everybody happy and the meteorites worth more (told him the reporter
forgot to mention such a thing already existed), one guy that thought it
was an interesting story and wanted help make an Indiana Jones type movie
out of it (sent him to Mike Farmer), and one liberal retard who vented not
only on stealing history, destroying the environment, but also on Arizona
psychos selling automatic weapons etc, etc, etc. Another quiet day at
the office.
Eric Olson
http://www.star-bits.com
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