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Those sleazeballs over at talk.origins still keep insisting
that my specimens -- petrified bones, teeth and soft organs
(some human) discovered between coal veins -- were
identified as concretions by ALL of the scientific "experts"
who had examined them.
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Yes, this is TRUE -- but only because the so-called "experts"
of anthropology and paleontology DID NOT operate honestly
in either their examination or their testing. Their examination
and/or testing were a complete farce.
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I will identify some of these "experts" -- the scumbags --
and can relate at least a dozen horror stories about my
personal contacts with them.
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It is a pathetic story of deceit, deception, collusion
and conspiracy by members of the Scientific -- whoops,
Pseudoscientific -- Establishment.
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1. The horror stories began in June 1981 when I discovered
a large object that resembled a skull between coal veins
in NE Pennsylvania. I sent Penn State University a b/w photo
and its "expert" agreed it resembled a skull but stated that,.
since it was found in Carboniferous strata. it HAD TO BE
a concretion.
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He pointed out that the formation of anthracite dates back
a minimum of 280 million years and all scientific textbooks
insist no large animals existed back then. Thefefore, it
couldn't possibly be a skull.
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2. I then sent a color photo of the same specimen to Alan
Mann, anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvanian.
He was intrigued and asked me to bring it to Philadelphia
so he could thoroughly examine it.
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Mann was about an hour late for our scheduled appointment
and, finally arriving, slapped his hands together and
exclaimed: ":Well, where is it?."
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When told it was in the corner of the large room, he saw it
from a distance, excitedly rushed over, got down on one knee
and exclaimed: "My God, I don't believe it!."
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For about five minutes Mann examined the specimen,
then announced rather conclusively that it was a concretion,
definitely not the skull of an animal that ever lived.
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3. I later sent the same color photo to the Smithsonian and
received a reply from Raymond Rye III, museum specialist in its
Department of Paleobiology, asking if its experts would have
an interest in examining the specimen. He wrote back, saying
they agreed to do so and we set up a date for my visit.
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I drove to Washington, D.C., with the specimen and a witness
(Clayton Lennon), and Rye had a physical anthropologist,
a paleontologist and a geologist assembled for my arrival.
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All three spent about 10 minutes examining the specimen and
unanimously agreed it was a concretion, certainly not a petrified
skull. They laughed when I suggested that the jaw-like portion
be broken off to see if teeth could be found inside.
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Neither the original expert at Penn State nor Mann at U of P
nor these three knuckleheads at the Smithsonian informed me
that there is a positive test to determine if a rock-like object
is petrified bone. That is, by examining its cell structure
microscopically. (I had to learn this on my own a few months
later).
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4. After pressing Penn State to investigate the matter -- using
the influence of state Sen. James Rhoades -- I was reluctantly
invited to the campus to meet with Roger Cuffey, paleontologist.
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When I arrived, Cuffey'slaboratory was set up with many microscopes
and he explained that under each one was a ground section
showing the cell structure (Haversian canals) of what he said
was dinosaur bone.
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Then, nervous as a cat, Cuffey handed me a letter stating that
my visit to his laboratory "confirmed" that none of my specimens
were petrified bone and that I should throw in the towel. This letter
was handed to me BEFORE I even had an opportunity to peer
thru his microscopes.
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It was a well-orchestrated ploy: Dinosaurs possessed reptilian
Haversian canals, quite different (larger) than the cell structure of
mammalian bone.
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5. Later, I sent photos of some of my specimens to Richard Eckhardt,
an anthropologist at Penn State, then phoned and asked if he would
like to examine them. He invited me to come up but said it would have
to be after he returned from Europe, since the semester was
near its end and he was going to England for the summer.
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In late September, after classes began, I phoned him again but
now he adamantly refused to have me meet with him. But I got a bit
pushy and reminded him what he had promised and he rather
reluctantly allowed me to pay a visit, which I did..
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As we sat in his office, he examined some of my specimens
and identified all of them as concretions -- but, oddly, asked
if he could take photos of them, which I allowed him to do. And
when I was leaving, he mentioned that I had said I have more
larger specimens in the trunk of my car and Eckhardt expressed
a desire to see -- and photograph -- them as well, which he did.
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6. I had contacted the Paleontological Research Institution
in New York State and dealt with a John Chiment. He expressed
a desire to examine one of my specimens and I mailed it to him.
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Upon its return after several weeks, Chiment informed me in
multi-page handwritten letter that it was not bone but, instead, a
concretion. He also strongly urged me to give up and leave
science to the "experts."
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7. I then wrote to Noel Boaz, an anthropologist/paleontologist at New
York University, and sent him photos of some of my specimens.
He appeared very much interested in seeing them and, during
a telephone conversation, set up a date for his visit to my home in
Shenandoah, Pa. But the day before he was to arrive, I phoned him to
make sure he was coming but he surprised me and said he couldn't
make it because he was tied up. Ironically, during our initial
conversation, he had picked that particular day to meet with me
because he said he'd be passing only miles from my home..
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8. Now having been self-educated in the identification of Haversian
canals of mammals, I wrote to Luis Alvarez at the University
of California-Berkeley, then received a letter from UofC stating that
I should send a few specimens and the university would use its
expertise to determine if they're petrified bones.
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Well, three specimens were sent by certified mail, but when the green
card came back it was unsigned. I had the local postmaster send the
card back for a signature confirming their arrival, but this time it
was returned with someone's initials -- not LA for Louis Alvarez.
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I then had the Post Office sent the green card back again and this
time it had writing aside of it, pointing to the initials and stating
that they belonged to the chairman of the Paleontology Department.
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After failing to hear a word for more than a month, I wrote a polite
letter requesting the specimens be returned. I, in turn, received
a letter saying they had NEVER ARRIVED.
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At that point, I had a U.S. Postal inspector visit the Berkeley (Ca,)
main Post Office and he uncovered physical evidence that the
specimens had been delivered -- and signed for -- at the university.
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With this ammunition, I re-contacted UofC-Berkeley and demanded
the specimens be returned OR ELSE And about a week later they
were returned and all three appeared uncut (meaning a slice hadn't
been removed to examine the cell structure).
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I took the specimens to a lapidary who told me it was simple to
tell if any of them had been cut by placing them under running
water (his kitchen sink). I did and, lo and behold, the side of one
had been sliced (undoubtedly for microscopic investigation for
the presence of Haversian canals which had to be present, otherwise
there would have been no coverup).
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9. Andrew MacRae, then a grad student at Calgary University in
Canada, agreed to examine one of my specimens. I sent him
the one which Wilton M. Krogman had identified as a portion of
a tibia.
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Weeks and weeks went by without a response from MacRae, but
then he announced that it was a concretion and posted his
results on his Cecil B. DeMille-like Web page. Then he sent me
the ground section that he allegedly had used for his testing and
the remainder of the specimen.
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A few days after MacRae's pronouncement, I had a cordial e-mail
from Paul (PZ) Myers of Temple University, informing me that I could
bring the ground section to his laboratory in Philadelphia to prove,
once and for all, that the tibia-like specimen was not petrified bone
but a concretion.
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I took the bait and visited him with the ground section. And, yes,
NO Haversian canals could be seen. I knew I was being conned
but couldn't figure out how.
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But later, when I examined granules from the complete specimen,
I realized the Haversian canals were clearly visible. That's when I
knew MacRae and Myers had pulled a fast one, having tampered with
evidence.
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And I have accused both MacRae and Myers of conspiring against truth
by manufacturing a ground section from a concretion and trying to pass
it off as having been sliced from my specimen.
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When I pushed Myers on talk.origins and requested Temple University
check its telephone records to see if anyone had made phone calls to
Calgary University during the period that MacRae had the specimen,
Myers ADMITTED he had made some calls.
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Then, when pressed even more, Myers actually admitted in a posting
to talk.origins that HE HAD FLOWN TO CALGARY while McRae was
doing his fraudulent testing. But he explained that it was not to
confer with MacRae but was done for other reasons (undoubtedly
instructing him how to con me).
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10. A Kurt Wise at Harvard University wrote out of the blue and
requested I send him a specimen for "honest investigation," which
I did. I sent him a beauty that Wilton M. Krogman, one of the world's
foremost forensic anthropologists, had identified as part of a spine.
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Wise took a few weeks, then wrote back and stated that testing
revealed it to be a concretion. However, after a period of time
passed, he did not return the specimen.
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Finally, I wrote and informed him the specimen was my property
and I'd like it back. This letter was ignored, so I wrote him again
and bluntly informed him it better be returned or else .A few days
later a package arrived from Wise but a large corner of it was ripped
open and there was no specimen inside..
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Wise made it seem as though the package had gotten ripped
during handling and the specimen fell out. But the object
I sent him couldn't possibly have fallen out because it was
too large for the hole, even if a piece of it had been sliced off..
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Another Smoking Gun was the postage. There were TWO
meter postage stickers on it, which just doesn't happen in
legitimate mailing since the scale indicates the cost of mailing and
one sticker is sufficient.
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Besides, the total price to send the package didn't add up to what
the specimen cost to send, no matter which way it was mailed and
no matter the weight of the package.
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11. I had learned Allan Walker at Johns Hopkins University
was an expert on prehistoric teeth so I called him and asked
if he would examine what Krogman had identified as a premolar
tooth that was found in the jaw-like area of the first specimen
I discovered (the same one that the Smithsonian's "experts"
had identified as a concretion).
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I drove to Baltimore (again with Lennon) but Walker didn't even
invite me into the building. Instead he came outside and, while
I was double-parked on the street outside Johns Hopkins Hospital,
he informed me that the tooth-like object was a concretion.
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But I didn't stand for his bullshit and told him, in so many words,
he was a pathetic excuse for an honest scientist. Surprisingly. he
nervously blurted out:: t"But you should have more teeth than just
one."
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12. Back we go to the Smithsonian. One year after paying my
visit with the first specimen and not realizing I had been conned,
I discovered the complete petrified human skull embedded
in the boulder.
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I sent Rye a color photo and he replied that it DOES resemble
a hominid skull but "a microscopic study" of its cell structure
would have to be performed "to determine if it has the structure
of bone" (Haversian canals).
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About a month later, I received a letter from Rye in which he wrote:
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"An X-ray analysis of the material reveals it to be quartz, the
most abundant material of the earth's crust. So although the
enigmatic object exposed in the boulder may resemble a
hominid skull, its mineral composition is definitely not that
of bone."
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Great curve ball, Raymond! The only problem, X-ray analysis
is not the test that should've been done. You see, X-ray
analysis is NOT "a microscopic study" to determine if
Haversian systems exist in the specimen. The Smithsonian
had dodged the bullet of Truth with deceit, deception, collusion
and conspiracy.
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I might add there are many, many more horror stories in my
25-year battle with members of the Scientific Establishment
who want nothing to jeopardize their vested interests and,
consequently, have surrendered their integrity to perpetuate
the factless, facetious Theory of man's Evolution.
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