Re: Let's get controversial about Barry Fell

Eric Stevens wrote:
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:53:01 GMT, David B <tronospamchos@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:

In all fairness, Barry saw patterns that nobody else could see, even
when he explained the patterns to them. In some cases he seemed to be
doing the equivalent of reading messages from God in the wall paper
but in other cases he may have been right. Who really knows? I don't.
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That's a bit like a stopped clock being exactly right more often than a slow or fast one. Some might prefer to see it as analogous to Clarke's Third Law- any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from kookery- but what other examples do we have of discoveries which nobody at all could understand, even when they were carefully explained by the discoverer over a period of years?

Have you studied the arguments about climate change recently?

They can't all be right and there are plenty of examples of advocates
from side A being ignored by the inhabitants of side B, and vice
versa. Some of the arguments that are being commonly decried will one
day turn out to be right, and I'm picking this about some quite
important topics.

I've actually studied quite a bit of the evidence behind the arguments about climate change recently. The "hockey stick" is very real and very anomalous, and if some folks hadn't wasted so much time denying its existence, we'd probably understand a great deal more about the precise causes of it by now. However, as for Barry Fell, I'm with Tom- if Barry had just proceeded with a bit more patience, and perhaps concentrated on making a really sound case for a limited set of inscriptions generated by a particular culture, he would have gained genuine respect.

David B.
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