[meteorite-list] A Bunch of Irregular Stones I Found (+How I Think They May Have Originated)

[Peter Richards]

Re: Bill Kies: "meteorite psychosis", Phil Witmer: "meteoritical
delusional disorder".
Look at how ridiculous this is. Make a comment with substance, please,
Bill or Phil. A delusion is a false belief. What is the delusion,
exactly? That "expertise" is not necessarily what experts claim it to
be? Has it not been revealed how shallow this "expertise" is, in many
cases, by the very fact that arguments with no more substantation than
that based on one's expertise itself are being made? That's a self
fulfilling prophecy: "You're an expert because your expertise has
demonstrated it. You have expertise because you're an expert." Just
because you've found a meteorite, many, studied them, or gotten a
degree in the profession, it does not mean you can not act
fraudulently. As I've stated before, it's something so obvious that
stating it is bordering on the absurd, but there it is.

Peter Richards