Re: PALEONEWS: Dinosaur-bird link smashed in fossil flap

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

I have long been suspicious that USA Today is run by a born-again
Christian affiliated group.  
IMHO, they would be more likely to emphasize a scientific hoax -for
reasons of their own- than most other news media sources.

I've always taken USA TODAy with a grain of salt.

-Betty

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/28/00 3:15:53 PM EST, bettyc@flyinggoat.com writes:
> 
> << USA TODAY: Dinosaur-bird link smashed in fossil flap  >>
> 
> I wish the news media would stop writing this kind of sensationalistic
> rubbish in their headlines. It makes it seem, to the reading public, as if
> the reason paleontologists imagine that dinosaurs and birds are related is
> this one specimen that has now turned out to be phonied up, and that
> therefore the "dinosaur-bird link" is "smashed." That is, that dinosaurs and
> birds aren't related after all. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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