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VBB Jan 31, 2012 14:12:39
Replying to rockhopper

What brought this on?

There are good and bad in all walks of life and examples are hardly confined to academics.

R Resonox
Resonox Jan 31, 2012 18:10:39
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VBB wrote:
What brought this on?

There are good and bad in all walks of life and examples are hardly confined to academics.

There are definitely people who will disagree with any option in the face of all proof to the contrary and nver admit to being erroneous.....sometimes(usually???) just to prove they are blessed with more intellect which makes them right regardless of all arguments and then there are people who will spout the most absurd of notions, claiming they have irrefutable evidence of this notion (which often never sees the light of day) just to prove they have something that is totally unique, these too will never accept the possibility that they might be wrong. Fortunately there are a great many people who look at all options from every available angle and accept neither of the total ideas championed by the first two types of people.

R rockhopper
rockhopper Jan 31, 2012 20:38:08
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In 2003, I took two geologists out to take a look at some of this. I subsequently received a letter from one of them, one of the most reputable geologists in this country, and a senior lecturer at trinity College Dublin. I will quote the first part of that letter.

Dear Mark, I have been talking with Robbie over the past week and we both agreed you are really on to something. We found that arrangement of stones in several places that you took us to be quite unnatural and thus indicate the action of man. I'm still not sure how these can be accurately dated but there are one or two recently developed techniques that I will investigate. In the meantime i would strongly encourage you to pursue your investigations and to enlist the help of professional archaeologists if at all possible-I feel they will be very pleasantly surprised.

I sent over twenty copies of this letter to the most senior archaeologists in this country. I received no replies. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.