Re: New Review of Seaver's book on the VM: A Saga of Wormholes and Anatase

From: Hu McCulloch (mcculloch.2_at_osu.edu)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:32:57 -0500

"Doug Weller" <dweller@ramtops.removethisdemon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:jepm21djcbk1rr8a1h08nnh73c9uv1rjer@4ax.com...
> A Saga of Wormholes and Anatase. A review by William W. Fitzhugh
> Science 2005 307: 1413-1414

Thanks, Doug. I'll look it up.

Meanwhile, my own review of Seaver's book, newly
updated this month with a refutation of
her contention that David Crantz's 1765 misunderstanding of
his sources proves the map to be a hoax, is on my VM webpage,
at
  http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/vinland/vinland.htm .

As I pointed Friday under "The VM: Find or Fraud, it
also critiques last month's NOVA program, and now prints out at 50 pages.
  Of particular interest:
  A new Beinecke image of the map (my new Figure 2) that
shows the actual appearance of the map better than my old photo,
and which is megazoomable using a free software download.
  A demonstration that Josef Fischer's looped d's are unlike
those that appear on the Vinland Map, contra Seaver in her
book and on NOVA. Instead, the VM d's are quite
like those on the now unquestionably genuine Tartar Relation.
This was the only non-circumstantial "evidence" Seaver had to
link Fischer to the FM.
  A positive reason to think that even if the VM is a forgery, Fischer
could not have been the forger.
  A new refutation of Seaver's 1995 contention that a 1765 misunderstanding
by David Crantz demonstrates the map to be a modern forgery.
  Demonstration that NOVA's "Ultraviolet" image of the map was
fabricated by inverting the colors on an ordinary image, thereby creating
a photo negative. Such fabrication of scientific data is what may
charitably be called "science fiction."
  My extensive discussion of articles by McNaughton, Saenger,
McCrone, and Brown and Clark was already included in the Feb. 2004
version of the webpage.
  In light of the VM's Teflon-like property that none of the many charges
flung against it over the past four decades have stuck to it, it is
beginning
to seem like it might be genuine after all.
  Enjoy!
-- Hu McCulloch
   Econ Dept.
   Ohio State Univ.
   http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/outliers.html

PS: I'll be replying to Steve Marcus's points soon on the "Find or Fraud"
thread.

-- HM

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