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To: VadeRetro
Furthermore, you contaminated your Archaeoraptor claim with an attempt to stretch it to some unknown number of other fossils you conventiently forgot to mention.

There are several Chinese groups that have sold black-market frauds of "rare, one-of-a-kind fossils" to collectors. Every so often one of these makes it into the main stream.

It is so prevalent, that there is a cycle between these things being credited, and the scientific community ignoring most everything that comes out of China.

117 posted on 02/19/2005 5:33:25 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
I don't know of another such instance after Archaeoraptor. Every other fossil species commonly mentioned on these threads (Archaeopteryx, Sinornithosaurus, Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Microraptor ... these guys) is good as gold. I have one guy's vague mumble, which you imagine you substantiate by chiming in with the same mumbled "There are lots." That's not how it works.

I should have heard of them if you have. I haven't. This is bull.

139 posted on 02/19/2005 6:56:33 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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