John Hoopes Wrote:
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> I'm confused. The NYT article by John Noble
> Wilford, who's one of the most experienced and
> savvy science writers in the U.S., says the
> research was done by Michel W. Barsoum, a
> professor of materials engineering at Drexel
> University in Philadelphia. Was there another
> study done by a French team, or is Michel Barsoum
> "the French" to whom Lehner refers?


That would be Joseph Davidovits
[en.wikipedia.org]


> I assume The Journal of the American Ceramic
> Society is peer-reviewed. Did they somehow fail
> to solicit reviews from informed Egyptologists?

Well I can't say of course what their peer-review system is ... but I do know that no mainstream Egyptologist accepts this.




Kat

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How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public
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