[meteorite-list] Let DeRusse alone

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Feb 20 13:53:17 2005
Message-ID: <BE3E1C66.18300%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Martin,
        You are such a kind man!
        He wrote me threatening emails, claiming I was part of a
worldwide conspiracy along with several prominent scientists
and other highly reputable meteorite dealers because no one
wanted to buy his meteorites....
        My reaction was far less "Christian" than yours. I just felt like
poking him with a sharp stick for threatening me out of the blue.
It took two or three interactions before I refused all response and
even then, this guy writes me every 6 months or so saying he will
see me in court. I have been tempted to yank his chain, but at least
have not done so since the initial contact.
        I do agree, it is far better to leave hostile mentally ill people
alone. Would you torment an obviously mad homeless person? Of
course not. But when attacked via email (or, in the case of DeRusse,
when a respected curator was attacked) we tend to be far less
merciful - especially if the individual is somewhat articulate, as we tend
to confuse intelligence with sanity, and, therefore, responsibility.
        You're a better man than I am.
        Michael



on 2/20/05 5:43 AM, Martin Altmann at Altmann_at_Meteorite-Martin.de wrote:

> Hi Matteo (and list),
>
> don't bother anymore. I'm not a psychatrist, but this deRusse-thing, seems
> to be a typical case were a person can't accept the truth and is getting on
> the wrong track, trying to find an explanation for each obstacle, which
> could destroy his dream, inventing more and more complicate constructions,
> as unlikely they may be, loosing more and more the contact to reality,
> running finally into a dead-end.
> Their behaviour seems to me to be more pathological than criminal.
>
> I'm telling this not to disregard this person, as it's a typical strategy to
> attack an adversary in stating that he's ill, but I remember a similar case,
> which I have to call a kind of human tragedy.
>
> Years ago a guy contacted me (and I'm sure he mailed also to several others
> from this list),
> who was believing, that he had found Mars meteorites. He send me video tapes
> with his finds, there showing the stones describing them with all attributes
> of meteorites, but hey were rocks, who even had fossils inside!!
> I couldn't help that boy, it was to late.
> What happened?
>
> He found those stones on a shore, as there were no similars and somewhere he
> heard about Mars meteorites, he sent some samples to NASA labs. He never get
> an answer (impossible behaviour in my opinion) and they didn't send him back
> his stones.
> Some weeks later, there was announced that in that ALH were discovered
> evidence of life on Mars in form of fossil bacteria in that stone, he saw
> Clinton on TV holding his speech about,
> life can be so cruel, and of course he thought that Nasa betrayed him, stole
> his discovery and that this shells ect. in his stones were marsianic
> fossils, additionally of course he thought to be a millionnaire now. He
> started to write and to send his samples to all institutions he could find
> and in the beginning nobody answered, because they thought that he's a poor
> fool, instead to be so kind to explain him, why his stones aren't meteorites
> at all.
> As there came no feedback and the ALH was still in the media and in
> discussion, he started to believe in a governemental conspiracy and behaved
> very similar paranoic like DeRusse,
> leaving more and more reality, so that later, when some tried to tell him
> and to proove that his stones are not that, what he thought that they are,
> he didn't trust anymore.
> He had quit his job and spent all his time in diving for this worthless
> stones.
> This is certainly a plot for a novel and you may find it funny, I felt mercy
> with him as he was a very nice guy.
>
> I see a strong analogy to that deRusse-issue, it can not excuse their harsh
> personal attacks to others,
> but it can explain them,
> so, I think, as it's to late with them too, one should let them in their own
> world.
>
> Martin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:52 AM
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>
>> Hello
>>
>> http://www.theshorthorn.com/archive/2002/fall/02-sep-20/n092002-05.html
>>
>> no comment
>>
>> Matteo
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