[meteorite-list] Re: Falling Into Reading

From: Kerns, John Space Systems <John.Kerns_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:37 2004
Message-ID: <14581985F24EB042B9E15D2B3E0BA5A0016D6DE4_at_XCGCA136.ssd.es.northgrum.com>

She IS selling it as a TRUE story. At $2500 a pop (plus traveling
expenses).
She also most likely knows that it isn't a real meteorite - that is why she
threatens to sue when anyone confronts here.
She will never have it tested because then she can no longer claim that the
story is true. "Ignorance is bliss (and financially rewording?)."
If she was willing to sell it as just a "story", then I would have no
argument with that.
 
For more information, try this link

        http://www.patriciapolacco.com/pr/index.htm

John Kerns
OSU/PO '85

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Martino [mailto:martino.6_at_osu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:51 PM
To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Falling Into Reading


Regarding Ms. Polacco,

In private e-mail she compared me to a person trying to ruin the story of
Santa Claus. So it seems clear that she knows her story isn't really true.
The problem for me isn't even her error or knowledge of it. It was her
attempt to CENSOR another author while she tried to cover her financial ass.
I tried to ascertain which details of the story were true or at least based
on truth. I was very nice about it and gave her every opportunity to have
constructive input into the paragraph which mentioned her book. She
responded with a (pretty lame, grant you) attempt to intimidate me into
silence. She flat-out admitted that she didn't want to lose any revenue from
her little talks and that this was the primary motivation for her threats.
Compare this attitude to her public facade in which she tells children not
to wish for themselves or to wish for money. There is a word for this. That
word is "hypocrisy." Just because her books are nice doesn't mean that she
is.

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Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ

Can you really name a star? Read the Truth!
http://home.columbus.rr.com/starfaq/
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> Message: 9
> From: "tracy latimer" <daistiho_at_hotmail.com>
> To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Falling Into Reading
> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 02:50:31 +0000
>
> I believe the problem isn't the quality of Ms. Polacco's storytelling,
it's
> that she refuses to acknowledge she might be in error regarding the facts
of
> her "meteorite", and is very aggressive about defending her family legend.
> I agree, if we (the meteorite community) could get her to stop passing
> around a chip of granite and saying it was a meteorite, that would be
good.
> On the other hand, she isn't trying to sell anything but a story, so one
> could argue that the damage isn't as bad as with our good friend Mr.
> Frass...
>
> Tracy Latimer
>





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