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[Count Deiro]

I believe it was Clemens (Mark Twain) that said something along the lines of " ....believe none of what you read and half of what you see."

Count Deiro
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-----Original Message-----
>From: "Paul H." <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>
>Sent: Jun 2, 2011 4:58 AM
>To: "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: [meteorite-list] "Possible meteorite" found in Newport,	Arkansas Area
>
>In “"Possible meteorite" found in Newport, Arkansas Area”,  
>http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2011-June/077048.html ,
>McCartney Taylor wrote,
>
>“The reporter confirmed that the confirmation of a meteorwrong 
>won't make the paper.”
>
>Unfortunately, this is typical of newspapers in general. Newspapers 
>love to write articles about some spectacular claim of either some 
>discovery or finding. Then, when the claim is discredited as being 
>completely wrong, the newspaper commonly ignores it because 
>the truth of the matter is quite boring.
>
>My favorite example is a reported by the now defunct “State Times,”
>of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which reported on January 9, 1951, that 
>the bones of a 11-foot Neanderthal Man was found in a gravel pit
>in Sicily Island. The Baton Rouge “Morning Advocate” reported on 
>January 9, 1951 that  a ”... gravel contractor unearthed parts of a 
>human skeleton 35 feet from the surface of the ground...” in a 
>Sicily Island gravel pit . As documented in (Arata and Harmann, 
>1966), these fossils were later examined by vertebrate 
>paleontologists and found to be the bones of a Pleistocene bear.
>Nothing appeared in either paper about this finding.
>
>Therefore, a person has to be careful of reports of meteorite
>finds and other spectacular discoveries reported in newspaper.
>
>References cited:
>
>Arata, A. A., and G. L. Harmann. 1966, Fossil Ursus reported as 
>early man in Louisiana. Tulane Studies in Geology. vol.. 4, no. 2, 
>pp. 75-77
>
>Yours,
>
>Paul H.
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