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Re: Strange Web Site



 
Today I encountered a very bizarre web site claiming to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs using a change in the gravitational constant.
 
 
Who *is* this guy? [...] He doesn't even say who he is.
He does. His name is Frédéric Malmartel. (He says "by F. Malmartel" on the site, and his mail address is frederic.malmartel@free.fr.)
I have seen this some years ago, IIRC in www.dinosauria.com, so more might be in the list archives.
It doesn't strike me that he has any scientific training (certainly not in palaeontology), but he presents a lot of speculations as facts, and makes several glaring mistakes.
It doesn't strike me that he has any scientific training (certainly not in palaeontology), but he presents a lot of speculations as facts, and makes several glaring mistakes.
Such as not knowing what a quantum leap is...  AND NOT KNOWING THAT G MUST BE THE SAME IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND WHOLE GALAXIES WOULD HAVE COLLAPSED IF HE WERE RIGHT. OUR VERY EXISTENCE IS THE PROOF THAT G DIDN'T LEAP... phew, please forgive me for shouting, but I have to let all the steam of somewhere because I want to try to write him calmly.

That said, writing him is a huge effort. I'll probably have to show that all his sources are in error, and his links page is very large, it even includes garbage-in-garbage-out maths such as http://www.bearfabrique.org/sauropods/biganims.html... probably not noticing that this one appears to be cr**t**n*st, so I'll stop here.
That's one of the many problems with the internet.  Anybody can just write whatever they please, and it can instantly be viewed by millions.  At least books go through a process.
Not always. I mean, I have seen books that were scientific to a similar degree.