[meteorite-list] Pseudofossils, Meteorwrongs, and Newspapers

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1372524619.41803.YahooMailNeo_at_web122004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

I heard Andre was a very nice guy although he loved his wine and at least he doesn't wear an Indiana Jones prop hat like the idiot who thought he found the Big Foot skull.

Adam




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From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
To: Paul H. <inselberg at cox.net>
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Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pseudofossils, Meteorwrongs, and Newspapers

That "bigfoot" rock looks more like Andre the Giant :

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/imagecache/670xX/photos/andregiantmug1.jpg

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 6/29/13, Paul H. <inselberg at cox.net> wrote:
> Meteorwrongs are not the only scientifically dubious
> material that seems to get regularly published in the
> local newspaper without any scientific vetting. Not
> only are newspaper regularly publish stories about
> meteorwrongs without any critical analysis, they also
> publish stories about various pseudofossils that
> people have found. An example is:
>
> Man claims he found fossilized Bigfoot skull
> (Todd May of Utah says he believes his rock is
> a Bigfoot skull because he has seen live specimens.)
> Portland Press Herald, June 29, 2103
> http://www.pressherald.com/life/man-claims-he-found-fossilized-bigfoot-skull-_2013-06-29.html
> Image at
> http://media.pressherald.com/images/portland-press-herald_3768607.jpg
>
> Man believes he found fossilized Bigfoot head
> by Mark Saal, Standard-Examiner, June 28, 2013
> http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-believes-he-found-fossilized-Bigfoot-head-4637134.php
>
> Similarly, it must have been an extremely slow day for
> news for this paper to have published the below story.
> It seems like the editor should have killed this story
> politely, but immediately.
>
> Mystery Rocks of Half Moon Bay: Resident Believes
> They are Dinosaur Artifacts. (Steve Culbreth shows
> off his rock collection in a photo slideshow.)
> by Angela Swartz, Half Moon Bay Patch, April 4, 2013
> http://halfmoonbay.patch.com/articles/check-out-these-unique-rocks-found-in-town#photo-13816954
>
> The Secret Life of Rocks by Steve Culbreth, Nov. 13, 2009
> http://www.slideshare.net/steveculbreth/the-secret-life-of-rocks-2497489
>
> Some articles related to such pseudofossils are:
>
> "Pareidolia." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
>
> Pareidolia: Seeing Faces in Unusual Places
> by Kim Ann Zimmermann, LiveScience Contributor
> http://www.livescience.com/25448-pareidolia.html
>
> Mimetoliths by R.V. Dietrich
> http://stoneplus.cst.cmich.edu/mimetoliths/
> http://condor.cmich.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p1610-01coll1/id/3445
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
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