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Originally Posted by Littlejohn
"..What is being presented as "news" is in fact a promotional campaign..."
Frankly, I was unaware of this, also because I am not interested in 'deep' of it. All I know is that Catania's researchers have used modern investigation techniques, using energized nuclear particles in order to determine the composition of the fibers that constitute the support's papyrus for the writings of the Dead Sea. I can not express any opinion regarding this, as totally fasting of specific knowledge ....
Greetings
Littlejohn
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Littlejohn, we had some previous discussion of these claims
here. The researchers who have made the claims, of course, will benefit from the fact that most of the people who read the newspapers are unaware of the problems and issues involved. Thousands of people will read that article and simply believe that the claims it makes are facts. Hardly any of them will read the specialized literature and learn that others have rejected the claims (as they undoubtedly will). This is hit-and-run scholarship, and nothing more.
07-14-2010, 04:54 PM
