Re: Kraken vs. Ichthyosaurs

[Jason Brougham <jaseb@amnh.org>]

Mark McMenamin will be on Science Friday today to defend his kraken hypothesis. 
I think they take calls, so DMLers should represent.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201110145

On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:37 AM, Vivian Allen wrote:

> It's a joke. Whether or not it's an INTENTIONAL joke is another matter.
> 
> Viv
> 
> On 11 October 2011 08:13, John Wilkins <john.s.wilkins@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's churnalism based on an unpublished proposal by the McMenamins
>> 
>> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense/
>> 
>> On 11/10/2011, at 5:02 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
>> 
>>> Ian Paulsen <birdbooker@zipcon.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  This story has been making the news rounds today:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense/#more-80848
>>>> 
>>>> Is it for real or is it a joke?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> No, it's real.  The deplorable standards of journalism, that is.
>>> That's certainly real.  The ichthyosaur-eating kraken is so much
>>> bullsh*t.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Tim
>> 
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>> John Wilkins | john@wilkins.id.au
>> Associate, Philosophy, University of Sydney; visiting fellow, UNSW
>> "Were all men philosophers, the business of life could not be executed, and
>> neither society, nor even the species, could long exist." William Smellie, 
>> 1791
>> Species: A history of the idea http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11391.php
>> 
>> 

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