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Government Backed Fraud in Academia

Contrary to the Hobbesian prediction ofis aggravated by a spreading notion in
anarchy (freedom) and brutish or unproductiveWestern society that all opinions should be
results in the event that elites (oftengiven equal weight and are valid until proven
termed 'beneficent paternalism') aren'twrong. In this Post-Modern democratization of
fostered: we find lots of evidence that teamideas, utter speculation by the uninformed
play and open organizational structureranks alongside the reasoned hypotheses of
actually creates more civilized andscholars and other experts in the
productive governance. Lincoln Electric infield."(9)The Midwest Archaeology Conference
Cleveland is a well-documented example of howheld at the Radisson in St. Paul, Minnesota
sharing the wealth and responsibility buildsin the November before this article was
communication and profit. A Brazilian cityprinted found a completely different and more
named Porto Allegro that opened itself tocomplete investigational answer. They had
citizen involvement and socialist ideals isonly one 'debunker' dissenter who thought
flourishing as corruption wanes. It wasWiseman might be right. The historian with
predicted they would fail financially butthe records from the royal court of Norway.
more than a decade of good results has beenThe top linguist who showed the flaws in
the outcome. Singapore reduces government asearlier scholarship. No one alive at the time
a percentage of GDP and is fully modernized.this stone was discovered could have known
Instead of 'expertise' being the solution, itwhat information was held within the syntax
might well be these technocrats inand vernacular usages of the time it actually
bureaucracies are the problem.Archaeologywas written or inscribed. It was shortly
Magazine has a frequent contributor namedthereafter that scholars saw these things yet
Professor Wiseman who comes under ourit has been a hundred years and many books
critical gaze for all his fine 'expertise'.have been written. Three questionable
He truly has struck a sore spot in our viewwitnesses have said their father or
of what is real about the Runestone atgrandfather forged the stone. I guess you
Kensington. Most importantly he did his dutycould liken them to jailhouse confessions but
just after he was proven wrong in awhy did they need three different
conference of 'experts' from many of his own'confessors' when only one did it in each
colleagues as well as other disciplines. Itcase? The chemical engineer and all the other
was February, 2001 when we read his 'Camelotarchaeologists present at this meeting were
in Kentucky' attack on the most speculativeengaged in "utter speculation by the
of all articles that hit the newsstands inuninformed ranks" according to Prof. Wiseman
early 2001, about Europeans in America orand Archaeology Magazine.There are people
Diffusionist History. Shortly thereafter thistoday engaged in ridiculing Farley Mowat
organ of the gods of archaeology had a piecebecause he is showing how the Scots of St.
on the natural landforms of the desert thatAlbans came here before the Norse (if there
became the Sphinx and Pyramids. No credit dueis any difference between Pictish Scots and
to man and science in ancient times isGothic Norse) who settled L'Anse-aux-Meadows.
allowed, it seems. In fact all of us are mereYou would think these people would know when
'post-modern speculative' trash as he wouldthey are beat, but the BIG LIE affects a
have it. We hit the ceiling and laughedlarge percentage of people who never really
simultaneously. Let's allow his own words toevaluate the facts. Mowat was a key factor in
prove our point (again)."Perhaps unwittingly,the battle to get the Norse point of view
Stengel follows in the footsteps of theacross in his book Westviking. One such
hyper-diffusionists, raising old hoaxesridiculer or paid hatchetman said Mowat has
exposed long ago. He brings up once again theno experience in the north of the Canadian
Kensington, Minnesota, Rune Stone with itsArctic. My oldest brother's first wife's
account of Scandinavian visitors in 1392,father was a missionary in the Arctic before
which over the past century has beenbecoming a Chartered Accountant. He lived
repeatedly rejected as a forgery by scholars,with Farley for two years there. Farley came
most recently by Stephen Williams, a curatorto our lake and visited, but I never met him.
emeritus of Harvard's Peabody Museum, in hisLet me assure you the experts often have no
book Fantastic Archaeology...Refutation ofintegrity. Their example is part of the
baseless speculation {That is YOU, if you arereason why our kids lie and cheat (on tests
thinking!} and repeated resurrection ofin American schools, Reader's Digest said 78%
previously exposed frauds and forgeries is aADMIT cheating.) or grow up to be lawyers and
seemingly endless task. So it seems to thepoliticians.Author  of  Diverse  Druids
teachers who must explain year after year to
new groups of students that reports of CelticColumnist  for  The  ES  Press  Magazine
inscriptions in the Precolumbian Midwest or
Phoenicians in Brazil are false. The problemGuest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.



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