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Scientists speak out to discredit 'gay caveman' media reports
CNN World ^
| April 10, 2011 8:07 p.m. EDT
| Phil Gast and Sarah Aarthun
Posted on 04/10/2011 10:19:47 PM PDT by pillut48
(CNN) -- Reports that surfaced last week about the remains of a "gay caveman" found in the Czech Republic have prompted scientists to take on an unlikely foe -- an overhyped news media that may be overblowing the archaeological find.
"Dudes! I could be wrong, but I think that to have a 'gay caveman,' you need a skeleton that is both gay and a caveman. And this ain't either!" John Hawks, an associate professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote on his blog in bold type.
Hawks joined a chorus of fellow paleoanthropologists, archaeologists and other bone experts who carefully dissected media reports about the dig, which began to increase after first appearing in British and Czech newspapers.
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What do you think the consequences would be if other scientists DID confirm a "gay caveman"?? How fast would the 'born that way'/'it's in the DNA' crowd jump on that news? Surprised that CNN gave an opposing viewpoint here!
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:19:48 PM PDT
by
pillut48
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:22:48 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
To: pillut48
an overhyped news media that may be overblowing... I think we may have found the problem right there...
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:22:57 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: pillut48
How else can you explain pastel cave paintings and a rock slab with a dust ruffle?
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:25:15 PM PDT
by
Spok
To: Spok
I suppose the obsidian butt plug was just to
stop the runs?
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:26:09 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: All
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:28:33 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
To: All
Oh, I can already see where this thread is going...LOL. ;-)
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:29:37 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
To: pillut48
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:31:16 PM PDT
by
Brandonmark
(News Coverage)
To: pillut48
LOL
It's Piltdown Man all over again.
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:32:19 PM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: pillut48
Oh, so what’s they meant on The Flintstones when they said “we’ll have a gay old time”.
To: tet68
“I suppose the obsidian butt plug was just to
stop the runs?”
or cave gerbils.
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posted on
04/10/2011 10:41:44 PM PDT
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: pillut48
Ha!
How can homosexuality which assures zero offspring “evolve” into being?
Libs make no sense as usual.
To: pillut48
So what was in the jugs?
If grave goods reflect life, there may be yeast cultures, berries, maybe the guy was the first brewer...
You'd want someone who could get the tribe schwacked for the big post-hunt celebration to carry the tools of his trade to the afterlife...
just saying...the data aren't all in.
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04/10/2011 10:44:28 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: pillut48
If the skeleton were a fag skeleton, shouldn’t there be a “bone” sticking out of the mouth?
To: Smokin' Joe
If grave goods reflect life, there may be yeast cultures, berries, maybe the guy was the first brewer... I was thinking the same thing. If this was Neolithic culture, there may already have existed artisans who specialized in particular activities. One can think of a number of scenarios more plausible than the "gay caveman" angle.
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posted on
04/10/2011 11:01:56 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: pillut48
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posted on
04/10/2011 11:05:15 PM PDT
by
FightforFreedomCA
(nope, nothing to see here, move along...)
To: pillut48
Maybe there was more evidence.
To: Smokin' Joe
an overhyped news media that may be overblowing... They just might be.
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posted on
04/10/2011 11:26:43 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Shemp was the Fourth Stooge of the Apocalypse.)
To: pillut48
Far be it for the PC crowd to let the lack of facts spoil a perfectly gay theory.
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posted on
04/10/2011 11:28:28 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
To: pillut48
So finding out that this abnormality is not new to this
century makes it wonderful and acceptable? I suppose finding
evidence of cancerous tumors on the remains should make us
accept cancer as something to accept also.
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posted on
04/10/2011 11:44:32 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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