Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

| Yale has spent much time and money attempting to get to the
| bottom of this.  They'd not bother if the consensus was on
| the side of authenticity.
|
| But as I say, you may believe what you wish.
|
| I had my say on this a year ago.

P. Jonathan Gans ---- 3 December 2003
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Translation:

"I made up my mind about the obvious forgery of the so-called "Vinland
Map" decades ago.

And I do NOT intend to waste any more time on the matter of considering
New Evidence and Lines of Inquiry.

I simply can't keep all those complicated historical, technical and
scientific facts in my head, I'm 70 years old and I'm thoroughly
disgusted with the entire matter.

Enough Already!

I have locked my feet [and my brain] in concrete and I don't intend to
budge one micron.

I am not an analytical chemist or a historian but a theoretical chemist
and a physical chemist ---- do keep that in mind.

Besides, I've taken a very strong position on the forgery of the
"Vinland Map", as well as having taught it to my students, friends and
colleagues over many, many years ---- and it would be a Great Loss of
Face for me personally if I were to give in, cave and crater on this
important scientific and historical matter."
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We are also seeing more egregious factual misrepresentations of the
attitude of Yale University in the matter of the authenticity of the
Vinland Map ---- from the usual discredited source.

Here is the truth, straight from the horse's mouth:

"We genuinely do not have an official position about the authenticity of
the map.  We regard ourselves as the custodians of an extremely
interesting and controversial document, and we watch the scholarly work
on it with great interest."

Alice Prochaska ---- Yale University Chief Librarian

Chemical & Engineering News ---- 7 August 2002

And that's precisely the way Hines sees it.

Yale University continues to work with and accommodate serious scholars
and private investigators who want to examine the map and are interested
in further investigations into its authenticity.  That is just what any
first-class reputable university *should* be doing.

Hu McCullough certainly had no trouble being given permission by Yale's
Beinecke Library to examine the Vinland Map.  But they certainly did not
fund him.

Vide:

http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/vinland/vinland.htm

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor