[meteorite-list] An embarrassment to us all (but mostly me)!Hi

[Paul H.]

Chris Peterson wrote:

“This nutjob posts on various astronomy forums.”

Yes, Ed Conrad is a nutjob. Unfortunately, there is nothing a
person can do about him, except ignore him. below is a 
web page that discusses his claims in detail.

Carboniferous human bones -- an evaluation
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/t_origins/carbbones/carbbones.html

Ed also claims that the folded Carboniferous strata, from 
which his siderite concretions come, are part of an impact
crater. An excerpt from the Geologic Map of Pennsylvania, 1980, 
compiled by Berg et al. (1980) of the area can be found at:

http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/t_origins/carbbones/shenandoah.jpg

Chonosuke Okamura and Silurian Minman

There was a Japanese paleontologist, who also went off
the deep end. He described from petrographic thin sections
what he though were miniature millimeter-sized remains
of various modern animals and fossil humans from Silurian 
limestone. He published a couple of formal monographs 
about his “discoveries.”  In histhin sections, he also found 
dragons, horrific denizens of the mini-world of Mount 
Nagaiwa. and the “head of a miniman in the alimentary 
canal of a dragon.”

For more information, go see:

1. Spamer, E. E., 1995, Chonosuke Okamura, Visionary, 
Journal of Improbable Research. vol. 1, no. 4.

http://improbable.com/news/2000/dec2000/japan-archeo-2000-12.html
http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i4/v1i4.html
http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i4/v1i4-toc.html

2. Abrahams, M., 2004, Tiny tall tales (Marc Abrahams 
uncovers the minute, but astonishing, evidence of our 
fossilised past.) The Guardian, Marcxh 16, 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/mar/16/highereducation.research

3. Chonosuke Okamura
http://www.palaeos.org/Chonosuke_Okamura

Some of the papers about Miniman are:

Okamura, Chonosuke, 1982, Period of the Far Eastern
minicreatures. Original Report of the Okamura Fossil
Laboratory. no. 14, pp. 165-346. Okamura Fossil
Laboratory. Nagoya, Japan.

Okamura-Chonosuke, 1987, New facts; Homo and all 
Vertebrata were born simultaneously in the former Paleozoic 
in Japan. Original Report of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory. 
no. 15, pp. 355-573. Okamura Fossil Laboratory. Nagoya, Japan.

Yours,

Paul H.