Message-id: <8CA43905D511B92-12CC-1CD6@MBLK-M22.sysops.aol.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:34:51 -0500 From: mkirkaldy@aol.com To: VRTPALEO@usc.edu Sender: owner-VRTPALEO@usc.edu Envelope-to: mike@indexdata.com Delivery-date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:35:29 +0100 Subject: Re: Aetogate: new review On Friday, February 22 augwhite@sbcglobal.net wrote: < Then this will be a true test of their dedication ... > It shouldn't be a test of their dedication--it should have been an impartial panel which had no close personal or professional ties to the person in question. They might as well have asked his mother to sit on the committee.   No ruling has been announced as yet, but the Albuquerque Journal published two letters to the editor today: http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/letters/287412opinion02-22-08.htm (free access requires viewing a very short commercial for the newspaper) Both pairs of letters are also available at: http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/nm/comments.html "Fossil Finds Must Be Shared" "DR. ROBERT Sullivan's views about fossil specimens ('Students Don't Have a Bone To Pick' letter) are at odds with the practices of curators in most museums, based on my 30 years' experience in collections around the world. He maintains that because some of the fossils in question were collected by 'the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, they are exclusively the research property of its staff.' " <...> KEVIN PADIAN "Museum Case Requires Inquiry" "LAURENCE LATTMAN'S letter ('Claims Against Scientist False') states that the allegations against Spencer Lucas and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science have "no merit," even though Stuart Ashman, secretary of the state Department of Cultural Affairs now concedes that they may." <...> MIKE TAYLOR Mary Kirkaldy ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com