[BroJoeK]

The Cajun: "I like anomalies or the prospect of an anomaly that buck current scientific orthodoxy."

Of course, that's precisely where serious scientists can make their reputations: by falsifying past orthodoxy and confirming new hypotheses -- scientifically.

But everybody who can write a book, or post on the internet is not necessarily a serious scientist.
And scientific theories which have been confirmed by innumerable tests, are not going to be overthrown just because somebody, somewhere, somehow reports an alleged anomaly.
It takes more than that -- a lot more.

In this particular example, of super-sized sauropods, we are dealing with 50 year old understandings about largest size limits -- which have since been challenged by new fossil evidence.
Does that mean everything we thought we knew about geological history is wrong, or is it just a misunderstanding about how large land-critters can get under ideal conditions?

I would spend a lot more time studying what we do know, before pronouncing judgment on what we don't.

[The Cajun]

I would spend a lot more time studying what we do know, before pronouncing judgment on what we don't.

Kind of a weird statement there Ace.
Of course study what we know, but what does "pronounces judgment of what we don't know" mean?
Can't we theorize and speculate about what we don't know, what lies beyond our knowledge or should we just stop, stick out our chest out and say, *that's all that needs to be known about a particular subject, nothing new need be added*.

As Windflier said about those two crackpots, the Wright brothers and I might add, Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Columbus and a host of others who went against the orthodoxy of their time.
I think the recently deceased Halton Arp belongs in that category also.
All *different* ideas and viewpoints are not all crackpottery, most may be and will be proven as such, but a few make the grade of advancing knowledge.

Loosen up Ace, you're wound up too tight, plus you seem rather *thick* in understanding what we are really saying.

I'm no expert on paleontology, just interested in the subject, don't think you're an expert either from reading the two little books you keep harping about.