Ruben Strikes Back

[luisrey <luisrey@ndirect.co.uk>]

Find enclosed a message by Ken Carpenter posted at the SVP list... how am I
counting the seconds for the SVP meeting... it's going to be hot!
I mean: Paleontology and conspiracy theories... Bird Connection and its
hidden agenda ... Next script for the X-files: Ruben as Scully and Geist as
Mulder(or viceversa).

No one can blame the Oregon Team for lacking clever publicity stunts. I'm
REALLY anxious to see that Triassic feathered 'animal'.


>The following is a transcription of a voice mail left on my phone today
from John Ruben:
>
>"...did reject our abstract. Actually you would have found it pretty
interesting because we've got evidence, I mean really solid
>evidence of a Triassic animal that was essentially feathered. We were
going to give it... Essentially, nobody at my lab was given a
>slot at the podium.... We have effectively been silenced. And Prothero has
been humming and hawing about, well maybe he'll let us
>talk late or after the session or something like that."

Luis Rey

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