Re: La Palma Tsunami Paper

From: Thomas Lee Elifritz (crackpots_at_everywhere.net)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:48:30 GMT

October 24, 2004

Thomas Palm wrote:

>>http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf
>>
>>
>
>What is interesting with papers like this is that they put more weight on
>the possibility of an 8 meter tsunami in Florida than 100 meter waves
>hitting Africa. Science is supposed to be neutral, but it really isn't.
>
>

After a single FYI post to a science newsgroup, already on the first
reply, the authors are being accused of racism.

This has to be some kind of usenet science record.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

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