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From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA of H in Native American
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:14:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: <46032135.3000401@comcast.net>


> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
> Bonnie Schrack
> But I have seen some
> tendencies to want to give Europeans a role in ancient North America,
> regardless of contrary evidence. I wouldn't want to try to speculate
> about the motivations, except that people have a hard time believing
> that anything worthwhile could take place without European
> involvement,

I must point out that this is _precisely_ the worst kind of political
correctness that we need to avoid in order to maintain our own credibility.
We have no right to distort the views and then attack the motives of anyone
who suggests a possibility contrary to our own current conventional wisdom.

I am quite unconvinced by this recent BBC program, but I do not think we
should viciously distort, attack, and silence it either:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbustrans.shtml

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