[meteorite-list] BCC "Meteorites" [was Milestones] PLEASE READ

[McomeMeteorite Meteorite]

I hope Jones remove this 2 liars from the list



>From: "Notkin" <geoking at notkin.net>
>To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: [meteorite-list] BCC "Meteorites" [was Milestones] PLEASE READ
>Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:31:19 -0700
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><x-rich><fixed>Jonathan posted:
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>>  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.
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>Dear Jonathan and Fellow Listees:
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>Jonathan, yes you are absolutely right. It is very "odd" and nobody else 
>understands their site either because their site is nonsense.
>
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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 ( listman at meteoritecentral.com ) to 
>have them removed from the List wouldn't hurt either.
>
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>Oh, and BTW, if you look at the first photo on their website, the guy with 
>the white gloves looks like "Dr. No."   : )
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>Not at all respectfully,
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>Geoff Notkin
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>Science writer interested in actual science and real 
>meteorites</fixed></x-rich>
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