Here we go again. Our old friend Tim Daw has taken to the media again to gleefully announce to the world -- or to his small part of it -- that the bluestone glacial transport hypothesis is dead. His somewhat misplaced confidence is all based on the new article by the "gang of eleven" about the Newall Boulder, which I will deal with in due course. Tim clearly thinks the article is the last word on the matter of glacial transport, demonstrating that he knows remarkably little about either the literature or the science. He's clearly the stooge here -- but I wonder who put him up to it?
He has made some rather excitable pronouncements on Twitter (now X) which I can't get at since Mr Musk has decided that I am not a bona fide follower or disciple. Something about the new paper "refuting any glacial transport"...........
Then on his blog he maintains his attack, using rather intemperate language. Most of his posts pass me by, but I do read some of them. But he never, as far as I can see, allows dissent or discussion on his blog, and that point alone says everything we need to know. It's all froth.....
His latest stunt involves an unattributed opinion on my recent post about the modelling of the British and Irish Ice sheet. He puts the "opinion" in quotes, to show that the words are not his, but there is no way that the words are going to be taken seriously by me or anybody else, since they come from somebody hiding behind a cloak of anonymity.
More serious is Tim's use of Researchgate in an attempt to give his outpourings a degree of "scientific respectability". I have already pointed out his very dodgy use of AI on Researchgate as a substitude for individual academic scrutiny -- I am surprised that the moderators have allowed him to get away with it. His latest piece, for which he claims authorship, has the grandiose title : "The Demise of the Glacial Transport Theory for Stonehenge's Magaliths." It's a short opinion piece, perhaps better defined as a personal attack, and I will of course respond to it when the tools of the trade are more readily to hand. (I'm on holiday in Sweden at the moment, dealing with the peculiarities of an iPad.......)
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