[meteorite-list] Anyone remember this?

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 10:13:26 -0500
Message-ID: <e51421550905080813ie5723e0o29439bae97d5782c_at_mail.gmail.com>

If Darryl's opinion had agreed with that of the other expert guests
and the show's host, it wouldn't have mattered if Darryl was degreed
or not. His credentials were only questioned after he disagreed.

Amateur scientists and aspiring scientists of all stripes have always
faced this bias from "authority". At least Fox didn't give Darryl the
"Galileo Treatment". ;)

If you don't have a degree then you don't know what you are talking
about. That's the common misconception and it's not going away soon.

Best regards and clear skies,

MikeG




On 5/8/09, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:
> Sucks that the media thinks you need a degree in something to be
> qualified to talk intelligently about anything...
>
> I wasn't really questioning whether it was a meteorite or not, I was
> just a little curious how it actually got there and what it was... I'm
> doing some research and knowing how this fell through a roof would be
> cool to know.
>
> Is that the one from the wood chipper story, or was it space debris,
> airplane part, shrapnel from an explosion or some other weird thing?
>
> Anyone got a link to a follow-up or conclusion?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
>
>
>
> Darryl Pitt wrote:
>>
>> Obviously at the outset a meteorwrong....but somehow required months
>> to establish after a team of scientists from Rutgers declared it was a
>> meteorite.
>>
>> With no visual or sonic phenomena to accompany the low altitude
>> explosion, which would have been the only explanation for such a shape
>> and striated surface character without fusion crust, there was no way
>> this was a meteorite. I vigorously pointed out to the local
>> newspapers and Rutgers this couldn't possibly be a meteorite to no
>> avail. I was on a live FOX radio show where they literally took me
>> off the air after having called me to ask what I thought of the "new
>> meteorite." When I pointed out that it was unlikely this was a
>> meteorite, they pointed out "And you have a degree in what?" and upon
>> my answer cut to a commercial and I was toast.
>>
>> Months after Rutgers put the object on display in their natural
>> history museum---for which they attracted their largest crowds
>> ever---it was publicly acknowledged the origin of this object was of
>> earthly provenance.
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 8, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Meteorites USA wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone remember or know what came of this?
>>>
>>> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070105-space-rock.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Eric Wichman
>>> Meteorites USA
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>
>
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> Eric Wichman
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