[meteorite-list] SETS: The Search for Extra-terrestrial Stupidity

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi Dirk- 

I see that the slander continues. Hibben underwent most vicious attack while incapacitated by a brain injury suffered in World War 2. Between his pre-clovis work, and his observation of the remains at Fairbanks, he got creamed.

Ed 

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ed wrote, " Would anyone like to apologize to Hibben now?"
> 
> Read this and my answer is still , "NO"!
> 
> Philanthropists' shady pasts sully college bequests
> 
> Posted on: Monday, 1 December 2003, 06:00 CST
> 
> ""IT SHOULD have been the culmination of a sparkling
> redesign for New Mexico University's campus: the Hibben
> Center for Archaeological Studies. Built with a pounds 3.5
> million gift from Frank Hibben, a renowned American
> archaeologist, the institute was created to give a flourish
> to its plans to become a leading research centre.
> 
> Then officials discovered an uncomfortable fact. Hibben,
> who died last year, may have done striking research on
> ancient Americans, but he was better known among colleagues
> for his decades-long habit of forging results. As
> archaeologist Vance Haynes told the journal Nature : 'He
> thought that it didn't hurt to make the evidence a little
> better.'
> 
> For example, in 1946 he described a site at Chitna Bay in
> Alaska at which he claimed to have found 10,000-year-old
> flints. Subsequent expeditions revealed that the site simply
> did not exist. Today, faking archaeological evidence is
> known as hibbenising. 'Some think Hibben's work is all
> faked,' archaeologist Bruce Huckell said. 'Others think we
> don't have enough information to know.'
> 
> Either way, the naming of the new centre after a scientific
> twister is a blow for a university seeking academic
> excellence.