mstower Wrote:
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> Corvidius Wrote:
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> > Not being fully up to speed on all aspects of this
> > affair, I would like to know if the long and
> > detailed review on Amazon by Larry Pahl of
> > Creighton's book is correct in it's details,
> > specifically about a "secret stash" of Egyptian
> > writings that Creighton alleges Vyse had found,
> > thus enabling him to know the Horus name of Khufu.
> > I have not read Creighton's book, and am unlikely
> > to, so while Pahl's critique looks very damning,
> > in fact it seems as if it should shut the lid on
> > all of this, I don't know if his critique is the
> > real deal, and I certainly do not for one second
> > believe there was a "secret stash". I do though
> > suspect that if Pahl was wrong about some aspects
> > of Creighton, he would have had his review removed
> > and, if he lived in the UK, be in court for libel,
> > but his review has been up since August 2021.
> >
> > It would seem to me that cutting through all the
> > verbiage and chaff tipped out by Creighton, if one
> > of his main contentions, perhaps, I don't know,
> > the central pillar, being this "secret stash",
> > then as this is clearly an unevidenced device
> > invented to produce a fantasy story, he should be
> > laughed out of town on this point alone.
>
> The short answer would be “yes”.
>
> Pahl writes “secret stash”; Creighton (in HOAX)
> wrote “secret cache”.
>
> One thing Pahl does not mention is that Creighton
> lifted the idea, from the late Alan F. Alford:
>
> https://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,1070017,1070452#msg-1070452
>
> https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/328787-who-sold-vyse-red-paint/page/4/#comment-6770780
>
> https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread998893/pg10#pid17649107
>
> Creighton’s procedure is Bizarro Science: he
> posits an unobserved entity (the secret cache) to
> explain a forgery whose empirical reality has yet
> to be established.
>
> I disagree with Pahl on “testing the paint” being
> warranted or useful:
>
> http://www.maatforum.com/forum/read.php?6,634948,635058#msg-635058
>
> M.

A phrase he used earlier is “master source”:

https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1033609/pg5#pid18469685

M.