I believe it was Clemens (Mark Twain) that said something along the lines of " ....believe none of what you read and half of what you see."
Count Deiro IMCA 3536 -----Original Message----- >From: "Paul H." <[email protected]> >Sent: Jun 2, 2011 4:58 AM >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Subject: [meteorite-list] "Possible meteorite" found in Newport, >Arkansas Area > >In “"Possible meteorite" found in Newport, Arkansas Area”, >http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2011-June/077048.html , >McCartney Taylor wrote, > >“The reporter confirmed that the confirmation of a meteorwrong >won't make the paper.” > >Unfortunately, this is typical of newspapers in general. Newspapers >love to write articles about some spectacular claim of either some >discovery or finding. Then, when the claim is discredited as being >completely wrong, the newspaper commonly ignores it because >the truth of the matter is quite boring. > >My favorite example is a reported by the now defunct “State Times,” >of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which reported on January 9, 1951, that >the bones of a 11-foot Neanderthal Man was found in a gravel pit >in Sicily Island. The Baton Rouge “Morning Advocate” reported on >January 9, 1951 that a ”... gravel contractor unearthed parts of a >human skeleton 35 feet from the surface of the ground...” in a >Sicily Island gravel pit . As documented in (Arata and Harmann, >1966), these fossils were later examined by vertebrate >paleontologists and found to be the bones of a Pleistocene bear. >Nothing appeared in either paper about this finding. > >Therefore, a person has to be careful of reports of meteorite >finds and other spectacular discoveries reported in newspaper. > >References cited: > >Arata, A. A., and G. L. Harmann. 1966, Fossil Ursus reported as >early man in Louisiana. Tulane Studies in Geology. vol.. 4, no. 2, >pp. 75-77 > >Yours, > >Paul H. >______________________________________________ >Visit the Archives at >http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
