From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 3420
Date: 2000-08-28
----- Original Message -----From: Mark OdegardSent: Monday, August 28, 2000 9:00 AMSubject: Re: [tied] Re: Dating Sea Level ChangesThe original Ignatius Donnelly of the Atlantis and "Bacon wrote Shakespeare" fame lived in the 19th century and died about the same time as Queen Victoria. I know he can't be the site's owner. I just wonder why he was chosen as its patron. If it's a deliberate hoax staged just for fun (as it does seem to be, on second thoughts), it's a rather elaborate one, but -- sigh -- students will be students. Anyway, I'd prefer a more conventional source of information ;)PiotrI've been to this site before. Immensly interesting, but it's hard not to regard it as an exercise in quackery. John assures us the science is 'sound', but, well, like the salt archive site, one queses when reading through it.I think the comments of 'Donnelly' need be understood as some sort of joke. My impression is 'he' is being made fun of. A short review of the site suggests he's a quack from the 1880s. There are a lot of dead links in this site, seemingly as if it is decaying. The Stanford URL gives it more authority than I think it merits. How long does Stanford let student pages stay up before letting them die a natural death?Mark.From: Piotr GasiorowskiAbout http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/donnellyr/paleo.html
Goodness, John! The author of this site is some sort of Net weirdo, a visionary and a follower of Velikovsky, speculating about the end of the world -- see his main pages:
Maybe he's quoting dates from reliable sources, but I would't trust him.Piotr