[medved]

Van Flandern is a thoroughgoing kook.

Van Flandern is a former director of celestial mechanics at the Naval Observatory. What sort of credentials do YOU have to be calling somebody like that a "kook"

[boris]

"Van Flandern is a former director of celestial mechanics at the Naval Observatory. What sort of credentials do YOU have to be calling somebody like that a 'kook'"

Only a Master's degree from M.I.T.

As I said, he has been thoroughly discredited; his notions of gravity for instance are risible. And your credentials?

--Boris

[Tuor]

What sort of credentials do YOU have to be calling somebody like that a "kook"

My credentials are that I am sane. The guy you were citing obviously is lacking in that department. What he is doing is much like looking at clouds and making pictures out of them and, IMO, has about as much reality.

Tuor