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Thursday Grab Bag: Wolter's Latest Attack, Lovecraft Racism Panel, and Weird Moon Math

9/25/2014

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Today I have a few brief topics to discuss.

Early this morning, Scott Wolter announced (if I am to read his possessive case usage as written) that I am trying to confuse the issue of whether Europeans colonized America and ennobled the Native Americans with Jesus genes: “I think the word that sums up some of the skeptic’s personal attack strategy is ‘obfuscation.’” I know! All of those texts I examine and the facts I muster to critically examine specific claims from fringe figures’ published works, it’s all a personal attack strategy, unlike Wolter’s much more serious strategy of claiming that he doesn’t read my work but rendering judgment on it anyway, and then threatening to sue over what he imagines I might do. Of course, Wolter might have meant plural skeptics, but that isn’t what the singular possessive implied. I’m still astounded that he confuses a single blog post in 2013 about his own claim of an honorary master’s degree for a widespread multimedia strategy to harp on it for 21 straight months.
Lovecraft and Racism Redux
Meanwhile, the Lovecraft eZine Podcast presented a panel discussion about Lovecraft and racism in which many of the majority white panelists (plus Rick Lai) explained, in large measure, why non-white people (and white people, too) shouldn’t feel uncomfortable about Lovecraft’s racism.
The highlight for me was when Lucky Girl author William Holloway offered a conspiracy theory that liberals and the “Salon [magazine] outrage crowd” were using the controversy over Lovecraft, racism, and the World Fantasy Award in order to push to remove Lovecraft from the list of canonical American authors because, he seemed to imply, Lovecraft was white, conservative, and male.

The host of the show, Mike Davis, asked me to be on the program in February, and he scheduled me for an appearance on July 13. (He says he schedules six months out.) When the appointed day arrived, he never contacted me, so I have no idea what became of that.

Moon Math Madness
Over at Graham Hancock’s website, author of the month Scott Onstott, a former architect turned independent filmmaker, is investigating what he calls the mystery of the number 273, which is somehow related to the Great Pyramid, menstruation, and various and sundry other coincidences. The number is based on the moon’s orbital period, which he gives as 27.3 days, and Onstott provides a list of 273-related measurements. He does not explain why he has chosen to round the moon’s sidereal month to one decimal place when modern measurements give the figure as 27.32 days. Many of these are pretty far-fetched even by the standards of fringe history. Let’s look at a few.
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Scott Onstott's Moon-Earth-Pyramid Math Mystery
He claims that the “sunspot rotational period” of the sun is 27.3 days. According to scientific studies,  estimates using sunspots to gauge the sun’s speed of rotation yield different figures based on the location of the sunspot used for calculation since parts of the sun rotate at different speeds. Figures range from 26 to 38 days.

He claims that the human menstrual cycle is exactly 27.3 days. Menstrual cycles vary by woman and can range from 21 to 35 days, averaging about 28 days.

He claims that the human gestational period is exactly 273 days. The gestational period varies greatly, though the normal range runs from 259 to 294 days, with week 42 (days 274-280) being the most frequent time for giving birth.

He claims that the summer solstice to the vernal equinox takes exactly 273 days. This one is true! But he doesn’t tell you that the periods between other sets of solstices and equinoxes don’t add up to 273. For example, the winter solstice to the autumnal equinox adds up to 276. The numbers orbit around 273 because Onstott has chosen earth measurements with an eye toward looking for those that are most likely to divide evenly into 10 lunar months. In other words, the only reason for choosing a solstice and an equinox was to get close to 10 lunar months in the first place.

Water’s melting point is at 273 degrees Kelvin. This is also true! But it’s completely irrelevant since the Kelvin units are arbitrary, based not on natural measurements but on the earlier Celsius scale, itself derived from a rationalization where 100 units were assigned between the melting and boiling point of water. That the size of a degree is not an iron law of the universe is obvious from the fact that the Fahrenheit scale assigns 180 degrees for the same range. Again, the loss of the 0.02 days from the moon’s sidereal month is felt here since the precision of the coincidence depends on arbitrary rounding. Using a better estimate of the moon’s sidereal month, the corresponding Kelvin temperature would be 273.2 degrees, which exceeds the triple point of water (273.16) and ruins the coincidence.

He claims that the moon’s diameter divided into the earth’s diameter yields the number 0.273, a figure relevant only in a base-10 decimal system. But really depends on what measurement you’re using, since neither the moon nor the earth is a perfect sphere, as well as how many significant figures you’re willing to carry the decimal out to. The equatorial diameter of the moon of 3,476 km divided by the earth’s diameter of 12,742 km yields 0.2728 (to four decimal places). It becomes “0.273” only by rounding to three decimal places. Why choose three decimal places for this number, but none for the moon’s orbit (27.32 days)? However, using the polar diameters (i.e., the length of the axis), the numbers would actually work better! The polar lunar diameter of 3,472 km divided by the earth’s polar diameter of 12,713 km yields 0.2731. But all of this only works if you’re using a base 10 counting system and decimals, which the ancients didn’t do.

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expat link
9/25/2014 06:49:40 am

Oh, this dancing around with numerology is so familiar. Richard Hoagland & Mike Bara do the same thing with the number 19.5. In three published books they have made the claim that the following features are at 19.5° latitude:

The Great Dark Spot of Neptune
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter
The erupting volcanoes of Io
Olympus Mons on Mars
Mauna Kea

If they'd picked Mauna Loa instead of Mauna Kea, they'd have got one right.

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Judith Bennett
9/25/2014 07:08:08 am

Graham Hancock is currently conducting research in the US for his new book. (It sounds more like a road trip than scientific inquiry, but what do I know.) Anyway, he's traveling with someone named Randall Carlson, who he bills as "a leading expert on cataclysmic events." I'm sure he's a crank, but one I'm unfamiliar with, so I was wondering if you were familiar with his work?

Here's one of Hancock's recent posts about Carlson: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=902727523089074&set=a.589185701109926.1073741825.100000555048221&type=1&theater

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EP
9/25/2014 07:14:51 am

How could a man with a beard like that be a crank?! :)

http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/randall-carlson

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Judith Bennett
9/25/2014 07:25:43 am

I'm sure the beard is part of what makes him "uniquely qualified", as I sure don't see any evidence of actual academic credentials...

BillUSA
9/26/2014 01:28:32 pm

What, you mean like these...?

http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/creation_evolution/charles_darwins_religious_beliefs.htm

http://graveyardsdb.com/galileo_galilei_grave.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley#mediaviewer/File:Horace-Greeley-Baker.jpeg

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Peter+Cooper&id=E70E362DF1DC67CC22DEEE1AF2DF405D8BF74776&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=E70E362DF1DC67CC22DEEE1AF2DF405D8BF74776&selectedIndex=0

Jason Colavito link
9/25/2014 07:37:03 am

I have never heard of him. He's a "geomythologist" who was on the Joe Rogan Experience, apparently, and sells website subscriptions and "courses" to his "students." He spent some cash on his website, though. The graphics look professionally designed c. 2008, with all the gradients, but, man, the writing is terrible. I read his post on the Holy Grail as a stone from heaven, and it was nearly incoherent, not to mention missing the most important source for identifying the Grail as a meteor: Der Wartburgkrieg 143, which I translated into English for my forthcoming book.

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John Dunham
9/25/2014 07:32:42 am

I love how they describe getting together in a circle and staring at a rock or a pyramid, or a crystal or something "research."

My business is research and if I was able to do what these guys all do, I could do my job in about 2 or 3 hours a year

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Randall Carlson
7/19/2015 10:37:08 am

John Dunham, you obviously have a high opinion of yourself. Whether it is justified or not remains to be seen. Yours has to be one of the most truly inane and uninformed comments I’ve read in a long time. I can only presume, since you call yourself a researcher, that you know that science BEGINS with observation, or “eyeball science” as the late Gene Shoemaker liked to call it. Apparently, your comprehension of geological science goes no further than “getting together in a circle, or a pyramid, etc.” I think it goes without saying that if you were confronted by an unlithified outcrop with an upward fining, matrix supported diamictic facies and a poorly sorted clast structure you would be utterly clueless as to its meaning and even more clueless as to its significance within the larger geomorphic context of landscape evolution.
Perhaps if you got off your pedestal you might actually learn something.

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Walt
9/25/2014 08:09:24 am

I don't care much about fringe ideas, but I can at least understand why Wolter considers your work "obfuscation" while you likely consider "examining texts and mustering facts" logical, hard work.

I still remember the first time I was taught by my family to ignore some facts that experts were presenting. In the '80s, I learned in school that "bundling up" to avoid catching a cold was just an old-wives tale, and doing so did not help. Medical advancements had shown that you either acquired the virus through your nose or mouth, or you didn't. Needless to say, when I told my parents and grandparents I didn't have to bundle up anymore to avoid catching a cold, they laughed out loud at the experts and I had to keep waddling around in my puffy jacket.

I think the medical community has since determined that cold temperatures conscrict the blood vessels which reduces the body's ability to fight viruses, so bundling up does actually help.

But, we learn at an early age to ignore the experts' facts sometimes. There's a bit of a difference between ignoring facts that contradict generations of observations from the martriarchs of a family, and those that go against folklore, hunches, or beliefs based on mistrust, but there's a definite similarity.

I don't know that my parents considered it obfuscation when the experts said the facts contradicted my parent's beliefs and called it an "old-wives tale" but that's certainly a valid description of the situation. The experts meant no harm and their actions were based on known facts at the time, but my family just knew better. And they weren't all polite when voicing their opinions of the experts.

Luckily for me, they never taught me to ignore the experts' facts about fringe ideas, to distrust the government, or to be racist, but if they had, I'm sure I would do so to this day.

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Jason Colavito link
9/25/2014 08:15:42 am

In context (he was responding in the wrong place to the preceding blog comment), Wolter was referring specifically to obscuring the "issue" of his geological claims with off-topic claims about his character. Since my criticisms of his work focus on the work and not the personality (except where, as on his show, he makes it an issue, as in his belligerent responses to experts) it does not meet his own definition of obfuscation.

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Walt
9/25/2014 08:28:17 am

I agree. I'd call that "obscuring" rather than "obfuscating" if it actually happened, but I'm no language expert.

With my story, I was just trying to get you both to be more tolerant and understanding of each other's beliefs so you can get along. I'm still shooting for a hug, but I'll settle for a handshake.

EP
9/25/2014 08:31:46 am

Why would anyone want to be tolerant of false and foolish beliefs, especially when they are disingenuously presented and widely disseminated?

I mean Scott Wolter's beliefs, needless to say.

666
9/25/2014 08:36:43 am

>>> false and foolish beliefs

Like claiming poppy-heads on Babylonian reliefs are "pomegranates" - last time I devoured one of those I really was raised to a higher level of reality, everything really did become profound - a really mystical religious experience...

666
9/25/2014 08:38:12 am

We do not need to be protected - junkies will always exist whatever happens.

Walt
9/25/2014 08:43:31 am

As my story indicates, the facts would've indicated my parents' beliefs were false and foolish at one point, but they ended up being correct, as far as I know. Wolter needs many, many currently-accepted facts to be incorrect, however.

But, if you believe Wolter is disingenuous, and therefore a fraud, then there's no need to be tolerant.

666
9/25/2014 08:47:25 am

>>>there's no need to be tolerant.

He's only propped-up by Andy Awes who make those documentaries.
When the runs finally come to an end, Wolter will fizzle out.

666
9/25/2014 08:50:34 am

The last documentary by Simcha Jacobovici and James Tabor went unnoticed. Their books don't get much publicity anymore. Bauval's latest book went unnoticed.

EP
9/25/2014 08:51:32 am

Walt, do YOU believe Scott Wolter is NOT a fraud? Not even a little bit?

Walt
9/25/2014 09:07:55 am

Honestly, I don't, but I hadn't even considered it until that last conversation about the honorary, honorary Master's. The thought never crossed my mind that he wasn't handed some piece of paper by a professor until you mentioned it.

I give everybody the benefit of the doubt until there's evidence to the contrary. I think he's honestly interested in the topics he covers, and he doesn't believe the experts have the facts correct. So, in that regard, I believe he's genuine in what he says. That doesn't mean I think anything he says or believes is correct.

I do enjoy the show, but I enjoy any show where the host enjoys telling a story. I even enjoyed Simcha Jacobovici's show "The Naked Archaeologist" so factuality isn't as important to me as an entertaining host who's excited about a topic. I see it all as entertainment I guess.

666
9/25/2014 09:10:03 am

>>> I see it all as entertainment I guess.

Scott Wolter the entertainer - well, he is a laughing stock

EP
9/25/2014 09:11:22 am

666: "Scott Wolter the entertainer - well, he is a laughing stock"

Irony LOL

Jason Colavito link
9/25/2014 09:24:38 am

Well there's the problem... We can wish it was just entertainment all we like, but Wolter wants to change history books, sue people, and convince local, state, and the national governments to act on his beliefs. That crosses a big line from entertainment to advocacy.

Zach
9/25/2014 09:27:07 am

Not just that, but he is advocating "beliefs" that have only been tested by him so far, and not even in the correct manner as we have seen.

Walt
9/25/2014 09:40:18 am

Fair enough... he almost has a political platform at this point with radio appearances, a book, and other groups supporting their politics with his positions.

But, none of that, including the controversies, ever makes it into AU. If the show ever becomes an outlet for the political ideals that are currently only in the background information, I'll be a lot less entertained.

EP
9/25/2014 09:32:56 am

"six white panelists"

Isn't Rick Lai Asian?

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Jason Colavito link
9/25/2014 11:24:29 am

Quite right. Noted and corrected. My first draft actually said "five" white panelists, and in correcting it I saw six faces and I forgot that I had written that because the sixth wasn't.

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Residents Fan
9/25/2014 09:38:02 am

One small correction - the William Holloway novel is called
" Lucky's Girl ", not "Lucky Girl" :

http://lovecraftzine.com/2014/09/07/lovecraftian-weird-fiction-author-of-the-week-william-holloway/

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Jonathan
9/25/2014 09:49:10 am

Jason,
In the comments section of his recent blog post, Wolter says, "The fact is the same 'serious academics' turn a blind eye to the obvious conclusive evidence behind the "Big Three", the Kensington Rune Stone, the Bat Creek Stone, and the Tucson Lead Artifacts. To accept them throws the last 2000 years of North American history upside down completely."

Does he discuss the Tucson artifacts in his Akhenaten book? I am curious, aside from the caliche, how he can positively date the artifacts and what his opinions might be regarding the swords.

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Jason Colavito link
9/25/2014 11:29:17 am

Yes, he does. I describe his claims from the book here: http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-scott-wolters-akhenaten-to-the-founding-fathers-part-2

The long and short of it is that he sees the artifacts as Templar-Masonic relics and uses Google translate on the Latin, to ill effect.

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Jonathan
9/25/2014 01:40:13 pm

Thank you!

Cathleen Anderson
9/25/2014 10:18:03 am

1. It looks like Scott Wolter is trying to take attention away from your analysis by constantly harping back on the phony honorary degree.
2. Lovecrafts work is what it is, those people aren't going go change that.
3. Numerology and those kind of math games have never made sense to me.

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EP
9/25/2014 10:44:45 am

Those of you who know anything about ancient Greece are sure to appreciate an anonymous commenter on Wolter's blog saying:

"I'm not sure a "mainstream" view exists anymore. It's just multiple schools and multiple teachers advancing multiple political agendas. Who was right or wrong in the Pelopenesian Wars; Pericles or Socrates?"

Wolter begins his response to that poster by saying "This is all good stuff".

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BillUSA
9/26/2014 01:15:45 pm

As much as I am against racism, I think there are examples of people having gone too far in their effort to change the cultural condition.

George Takei is the most prominent example - having used his influence to get the Charlie Chan detective movies essentially blacklisted from broadcast television. My enjoyment of the body of films notwithstanding, I have watched them repeatedly and willfully admit to accepting the dozen or so racially demeaning references as being something from that era - even if it is unacceptable now.

You can't please everyone all of the time, but in order to move on - to grow - we must accept such censored material as being vital to our growth as a culture if we expect to evolve to a higher level. I don't get the irony between violent video games being said to not influence people to go on murdering sprees while concurrently we are to believe that broadcasting racially tinged entertainment keeps us in the dark ages (so to say). Especially since someone like Takei would be insulted if his body of work were to come under censorship.

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A.W. Hendry link
9/26/2014 10:55:11 pm

"Meanwhile, the Lovecraft eZine Podcast presented a panel discussion about Lovecraft and racism in which many of the majority white panelists (plus Rick Lai) explained, in large measure, why non-white people (and white people, too) shouldn’t feel uncomfortable about Lovecraft’s racism. "

I think we must have watched different shows. I distinctly remember Joe Pulver saying that people are completely entitled to feel uncomfortable about Lovecraft's racism. I thought that the show handled the topic particularly well and the panel did a fairly good job of debunking the notion that Lovecraft fans refuse to confront his bigotry.

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Residents Fan
10/9/2014 02:35:25 am

"I think we must have watched different shows. I distinctly remember Joe Pulver saying that people are completely entitled to feel uncomfortable about Lovecraft's racism. I thought that the show handled the topic particularly well and the panel did a fairly good job of debunking the notion that Lovecraft fans refuse to confront his bigotry."

Yeah, I agree with you. I thought the Podcast gave a good overview
of the Lovecraft and racist controversy.

Two pieces of WFA/ Lovecraft news: the white Supremacist
publisher Counter-Currents Publishing claims
it will be creating a new
" H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature " in response to
the criticisms of Lovecraft and the WFA award; a piece
about this nasty group here:

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2014/spring/Financing-Hate

Also, Jim C. Hines discusses opposition to changing the
WFA here:

http://www.jimchines.com/2014/10/lovecraft-apologists-and-the-world-fantasy-award/

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