[meteorite-list] Re: Stones From The Stars: The UnsolvedMysteries of Meteorites

[Charles O'Dale]

I have to admit that I can thank good old Erich Von Daniken for initiating 
me into the realm of the skeptic. I fell for his "Chariots of the Gods" 
nonsense hook line and sinker, and I was just beginning my engineering 
career. What changed my opinion? An article in (of all things) Playboy Mag.

Playboy hired the then (almost) unknown Timothy Ferris to interview Eric for 
the "Playboy Interview" column. Timothy virtually exposed all of Eric's 
wacko ideas and his lack of empirical evidence (Eric actually made up most 
of it up). I was astonished that I could have fallen for stuff like that. 
Thus began my sub-career as a skeptic and my requirement for empirical 
evidence of "claims".  And I still read Playboy for its scientific articles.

Chuck
Meeting Chair
Ottawa RASC
http://www.ottawa.rasc.ca/astronomy/earth_craters/index.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Axel Emmermann" <axel.emmermann at pandora.be>

Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Stones From The Stars: The 
UnsolvedMysteries of Meteorites


> Oh yes!
> That gave me flashback... wow... still dizzy from it ;-)))
>
> Back in the fifties to late sixties there was several hypes created around
> some books that were written by pseudo-scientists like Immanuel Velikovsky
> or even a reporter named Erich Von Daniken.
>
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