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  • Can BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh straighten out the Fake-Sabr

    From Archimedes Plutonium@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 27 22:55:07 2023
    Pallab Ghosh please straighten out the science fraud of tigers with enormous teeth
    --- quoting BBC ---
    By Pallab Ghosh
    Science correspondent
    Scientists have made a key discovery about antimatter - a mysterious substance which was plentiful when the Universe began.
    Antimatter is the opposite of matter, from which stars and planets are made. Both were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang which formed our Universe. While matter is everywhere, though, its opposite is now fiendishly hard to find.
    The latest study has discovered the two respond to gravity in the same way.
    --- end quoting BBC ---

    Well this report is hollow of news. For matter is antimatter. Subatomic and atomic particles have directions of motion. And this is all there is to antimatter, it is plain matter in a opposite direction. So this is no news at all.

    But, can Pallab Ghosh go to California and sniff out the fakery and con-artist scam on Smilodon-- the Sabre Tooth Tiger, for never has a full skull with teeth found. AP says the teeth belong to a walrus the Smilodon preyed upon.

    But a cat with big teeth draws
  • From Archimedes Plutonium@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 28 11:30:53 2023
    Can Pallab Ghosh do science a favor and expose the scam that is the saber toothed tiger. Those big teeth were walrus tusks.

    No-one has a Smilodon fossil with sabers attached.

    AP

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  • From Archimedes Plutonium@21:1/5 to Archimedes Plutonium on Thu Sep 28 12:56:55 2023
    On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 1:30:56 PM UTC-5, Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
    Can Pallab Ghosh do science a favor and expose the scam that is the saber toothed tiger. Those big teeth were walrus tusks.

    No-one has a Smilodon fossil with sabers attached.


    Pallab, perhaps David Attenborough will join you in this mission. Go to California, inspect the world's best fossils of Smilodon.

    See if there are any, any at all which were dug up or retrieved from tar pit with attached skull and saber.

    I bet zero, zip, nil.

    And all the museum displays are glued on, soldiered on, screwed on saber to a Smilodon skull.

    The very very first of these con-art Saber tooth tiger reports was from a man in South America who found a separate jaw from a sabre tusk.

    And from thereafter-- the public was excited about a cat with teeth that serve no evolutionary function but rather destroy the cat's mobility and life.

    No wonder paleontology has a bad name, a bad reputation.

    AP

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  • From Archimedes Plutonium@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 29 14:05:20 2023
    And, there is such a thing as Convergent Evolution, where the skull of a large cat closely resembles the skull of the evolving walrus. Walruses did start out in the Southern Hemisphere and gradually moved north. And the first Smilodon fossil was found
    near a cave with a loose tusk nearby. It could be that the cat ate a walrus, or that the entire fossil was a walrus.

    What definitely needs checking into is the idea of a cat-- not enriched but hampered and thwarted in life by carrying sabers that are not helpful but harmful in the life of the cat.

    So it is time to completely review this silly story of a tiger with sabers that do it harm.

    People should not be prey to dumb scientists who want to make money off the gullibility of the general public in museum tickets.

    AP

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  • From Archimedes Plutonium@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 30 23:21:43 2023

    In a recent report by SCIENCE 18Aug2023 "Death by Fire" at the La Brae Tar Pits and Museum shows boxes and boxes of Smilodon fossils with never a saber actually attached. A picture of boxes and boxes of jaws but no attached saber tooth.


    In a recent SCIENCE NEWS article of 9Sept2023 "Fires may have doomed ancient beasts" shows a picture of a sabre toothed cat fossil alongside a "dire wolf" fossil. And you know what, no saber tooth attached.

    So please, BBC science department, investigate and stop this ugly paleontology hoax that deceives the world public. The saber tusks found in digs were the walrus tusk that the cat preyed upon. And it is ugly that paleontology puts the saber teeth onto
    the cat itself, only to draw more sales in museum tickets.

    AP

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