Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

[Josh Smith <smithjb@levee.wustl.edu>]

As we have now passed the book release date and approach the airing dates 
of the Bahariya Dinosaur Project documentary on the 2000 field season, I am 
beginning to notice, as I did in the weeks leading up to and following the 
publication of the _Paralititan_ description last year, a small but not 
insignificant amount of information being distributed out there regarding 
the project that is either slightly factually inaccurate or simply out and 
out wrong.

Please take in what information you do get from the media with a grain of 
salt, particularly from smaller, less widely distributed 
publications.  Even the large national publications seem to have a hard 
time getting their facts straight; indeed many of the direct quotes I have 
seen that are attributed to me or my close colleagues aren't what we said, 
even when they are derived directly from interviews.  Moreover, any quotes 
from someone that isn't a senior author on a project publication do not 
necessarily represent views of the project or contain factual 
information.  Press releases that are not issued from the School of Arts 
and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, or 
the Egyptian Geological Survey or from Ken Lacovara or Jason Poole, most 
likely have not been seen by me and I thus cannot verify their 
accuracy.  Certainly any press releases issued by agencies or individuals 
that are not authors of project publications should not be considered as 
representing the Bahariya Dinosaur Project, our mission, or our activities.


Thanks,
-Josh Smith
Project Director

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Josh Smith
Assistant Professor of Geology
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Washington University
1 Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1169
108 Wilson Hall
St. Louis, MO  63130-4899
Office: 314.935.7033
FAX: 314.935.7361
smithjb@levee.wustl.edu
http://epsc.wustl.edu

Director, Bahariya Dinosaur Project
http://egyptdinos.org