Twitter feed, 13th Feb 2021
Don't you just love this? On Alice's Twitter feed, on the day after her infamous TV prog about the "Lost Circle" and MPP's fantastical fantasies........
She was talking about the Pandemic, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Genuine scientific discourse being shut down? A gentle reminder that she knew full well that almost everything in that TV programme was hotly disputed by others, including me -- and that there was no acknowledgement at all of any of the "evidence" being questioned, let alone disproved....
And the media presenting a highly-policticised, one-sided view and ignoring evidence? That's a very neat summary of everything she and MPP said during the course of the programme.
Time for you to look at yourself in the mirror, Alice?
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Yes, I had looked at Alice's Twitter feed yesterday and thought the same 're the pandemic stuff. Also,N.B. she seems to have a separate "archaeology" section which I've not looked at as yet as not using twitter.
Perhaps there is one sort of science for medicine and another sort of science for archaeology, in which facts are irrelevant.
What is it with BBC2 and hexagonal rock columns combined with early myths?
On Thursday night Adrian Dunbar was showing us the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and the tradition that Finn McCool made them to get over to Scotland to fight another giant. The main thread of the programme was that they were natural.
The next night we have MPP clambering over another set of columns at Garn Goedog trying to make us believe they were formed by Neolithic quarrymen, against the background that Merlin moved stones from Ireland to Stonehenge.
I might have over-egged this, MPP did not say the columns were formed by quarrymen, but implied that the shattered state was caused by the quarrymen trying to take advantage of them. The Scottish giant also apparently had to damage the causeway because of Finn McCool.
In fairness to MPP, he did say that the hypothetical Neolithic quarrymen used wedges (of soft rock, for reasons which I find hard to fathom) and levers to get their prized spotted dolerite monoliths away from the rock face and down onto their tables, trestles, trackways and dressing rooms down below.......... giving us a charming picture of Neolithic domesticity........ believe that, and you'll believe anything. The artifice of the "perfect pentagonal fit" is pretty outrageous, since the profiles do not actually fit at all. The digitised Stonehenge bluestone monolith 62 has a symmetrical form, with 4 faces, not 5, and the socket (if it can really be called that) has a form that is skewed or unsymmetrical, with 3 long faces and 2 short faces. If you don't believe me, look at the article in Antiquity........
Monsieur Pearson he not so hot in geometry......
We really should contact Ian Hislop, Swansea - born remember! - to cast his cautiousand considered ears over what is emanating from the mouths of Profs Alice and Michael and print his findings in 'Private Eye'......
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