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

[Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum]

The delusion is when some dumb newbie finds a worthless chunk of slag and 
thinks it's a meteorite. When some of the most knowledgeable meteorite 
people in the Solar System tell him it's not, he still clings to his stupid 
belief.

Phil Whitmer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Richards" <pedrichards at gmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Bunch of Irregular Stones I Found (+How I 
Think They May Have Originated)


> 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
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