Re: Shrinking Earth

Jo Schaper <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:11p3b945en3jjd8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Al Zenner wrote:
>
>> I see a cargo cult thrives in sci.geo.geology. Are you the current
>> tribal chief, or is that Alan's post these days?
>
> http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_science.html
>
> I didn't see anything about tribal chiefs in here.

While I don't consider Wikipedia the final word there's a lot of
additional information about cargo cults there. Feynman didn't coin
the term. All the cargo cults mentioned seem to have a commonality
about them.

Feynman's version conjurs a vision of Findlay or Alan sitting in a wooden
hut babbeling into a make believe microphone at make believe airplanes.

> Would a female be called a chief, anyway? They always seem to call them
> matriarchs in anthropology, whether or not the female in question has
> children.

The anthropology with which we're familiar is subject to western European
cultural filters which form the underpinning of those studies. What do you
suppose the Amazons would have called their political leader? There
actually was at least one "matriarchial" society near the beginnings of
written history. Perhaps I'll make the time to take a closer look at what
we know of them.

>> Are there any real geologists here, or have they all been driven
>> away by these fools?

> Depends what criteria you need to constitute a 'real geologist'.

I mean a degreed, mainstream individual in Geology or Geophysics with
multiple published credits in peer reviewed publications related to
their field. Researchers need to have empirical or mathematical proof
of new theories, ready for and submitted for publication, before
promoting any theory which runs counter to the present state of the
discipline.

In sci.physics and sci.chem we had "Uncle Al" who publishes in the
local Mensa rag in Orange County, California, but that's the extent
of his published product. He's a crackpot who believes chiral crystals
fall at a different rate from their right handed versions. Uncle Al
and Findlay seem to belong to the same club. They each have a grasp of
a lot of the basics, but when it comes to any substantial proof for
their theory countering everything else we know about a subject, they
fall flat.

If there's anything at all to the idea of an expanding earth why hasn't
one or another of the peer reviewed publications, or discipline
recognized conferences, issued a call for papers on the subject?

Sorry to close with a rhetorical question.

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