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How much should you be prepared to spend on a basic Thanksgiving dinner? Although I don't agree with the abuse of the food stamp program I do recognize the impact it has on the folks who aren't abusing it but do need it. So let's break this down and...

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"There's plenty of good scientists in South America but they, clearly, aren't given the resources they need." ~Nolan Neanderthals, Mummies, Buga & Maussan "I could, probably...get in the likes of the guys who did the Neanderthal work." ~GN (Imagine having them ⬆️ work on the mummies!? Talk about credible! Sad to see it won't be happening any time soon unless things change. What would Garry P. Nolan ask for if he were to take on the mummy mystery?) Nolan: "I need a whole bunch of money. Not for me, personally. I estimated, I think online somewhere, about $5 million to do it right, which would be paying for postdoc researchers of various types. And essentially, the first thing we would do is collect all the data that's already known. Figure out what's usable, what's good, preliminary data that would cause us to go look in a next direction. And not set it aside, but put it aside in a way that said, 'Okay, well, there's all that preliminary data over there. Now let's - based on this - do the next thing that you know we should do.' "And then everything needs to be collated, the instruments used, the methods used, etc., because it's all going to have to go into a peer-reviewed paper where you can't just make stuff up about what the methods were. You can't, 'Well, I think I did this.' No, that's not what you can do, and that's not what you will do if you're gonna do it properly. "And it would, probably, be three or four different teams of people that would need to be brought in to do it right. And so no one was willing to do it that way. And so I said, 'No, I won't do it.' There's plenty of good scientists in South America but they, clearly, aren't given the resources they need, nor the power that would allow them to keep results quiet as they're being generated. "I could, probably, be able to get in the likes of the guys who did the Neanderthal work (genome sequencing ~Joe) IF they felt that I provided them sufficient information that would make it interesting to them and worth their time. And not get caught up in the circus that can be generated around these things. That's the reason why a lot of serious scientists, who I know are interested in it, but won't touch it with a thousand-foot pole, because of the antics that go on." (That needs to change if we're ever going to get a definitive answer on the mummies.) Nolan: "A similar the similar thing happened - I'm just gonna be honest - with the Buga sphere. Jaime Maussan contacted me soon after he had recovered the sphere. And I said, 'Okay, great.' And he called me. He said, 'Can you help? What should I do?' And I said, 'Well, you should get a mobile x-ray machine. And you need this and this.' And so, he literally managed to get it almost the next day, and sent me some of the first results. And I said, 'Great! Okay, so...let's keep this quiet. Let's do this, this and this. And now I need it at this angle and at this angle.' And he said, 'Okay, great, I'll do that.' "And then I woke up the next morning and it was all over Twitter. And I just wrote Jaime and I said, 'This isn't what I thought we talked about.' And his answer was, 'Well, we need to get this information out because someone's gonna suppress it.' Well, here we are now, what, six months later? And where are we? Nowhere. "And maybe Jaime's doing something. I don't doubt his desire. But I said, 'I won't be involved with this now because I can't trust that the information won't be ending up on Twitter the next day, before we've even had a chance to determine what is it that is going on." (Sucks, but it's not surprising. If the best scientists in the world demand silence until their work is complete then somebody who will avoid publicity until the study is done needs to be put on charge instead of Maussan.)

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