Doomer wrote:
> Thomas McDonald <tsmac@wwt.net> wrote in news:3D657F8A.7030503@wwt.net:
>
>> We've been discussing McCanney's CV on another
>> thread on this NG. So far, it seems as though he
>> has an MS, and has only taught undergrads in basic
>> physics and math. If this is true, the chances of
>> him being a Professor at any major university
>> are...well, less than good.
>>
>> If you have evidence that he actually has the
>> credentials that seem to be bruited about WRT him,
>> I'd be grateful if you could produce them. Until
>> then, his credentials and his credibility must be
>> considered questionable at best. This is
>> especially the case if he is over-claiming his own
>> education and academic responsibilities.
>>
>
>
> Scroll down and read the section called "About the author":
>
> http://www.worldparanormalforum.com/memberhosts/mccanney.html
Doomer,
Thanks. It does seem that Mr. McCanney was never a
'professor.' The only statement about his
positions in university teaching is that he was an
introductory lecturer. (Academic types are pretty
punctilious about titles, and for a lecturer to be
called 'professor' would only be acceptable where
there was little concern for facts.)
I was struck by the business of his 'study' of
archaeology leading him to the conclusion that
some major civilizations could only have been
destroyed by some celestial event; and that some
were so severe as to have left no traces of the
inhabitants. This is just wrong. While it is not
impossible that a comet or meteor strike might
have disrupted a culture, there is no evidence
that the people of any of the candidate cultures
vanished without a trace. He does not seem to
have a good grasp of real archaeology.
OTOH, he seems to have formed his ideas about
archaeology in the early 1970's. IIRC, there were
a number of questions about the fate of some
Native American cultures at that time that were
still open. For instance, at that time the
collapse of the Maya and the depopulation of the
Maya cities was a bit mysterious. Ditto the
Anasazi, and the builders and inhabitants of
Tehuanaco on Lake Titicaca.
If he formed his opinions about archaeology at that
time, and didn't keep up with the real
archaeology, I can understand how he could hold
the opinions he appears to hold. It looks as
though he may have looked to folks of the
Sitchin-Velikovsky stripe for answers, and built
some of his concepts on their work. (This was
fairly common then; in fact, I read some stuff of
that stripe in the early '70's as well.)
The web page you linked to stated that McCanney was
not into giving dates for things like PX. I
wonder if that has changed?
Tom McDonald
