Barry,

If you've actually read England & Palermo's paper, you'd know that it has nothing to do with alien artifacts. It's a study of the thoroughly natural phenomenon of those dark streaks.

I'm surprised you'd try the guilt-by-association trick, because it rebounds on you. Is your paper about rock varnish meant to further the political agenda of ICAMSR? I can see a stronger suggestion that that's so, because it would be ammunition for opposition to MSR; while I can see nothing in England & Palermo's paper that would further the agenda of anomalists.

How can you, an aspiring amateur scientist yourself, trash the work of other amateurs, on the irrelevant grounds of politically incorrect association? You, who are so vulnerable to the very same charge!

Give it up, Barry. You've gone so far out on that limb it's breaking under you.

--Robert