[meteorite-list] Good v.Bad

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:51 2004
Message-ID: <200201252049.MAA19100_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> I was touched to read members' Steve Sach's words of regret, words that
> aren't easy for any of us to write under any circumstances.
>
> My warm, fuzzy feeling was nuked by the message I just received from Ron
> Baalke and I'm reminded of why people are cynical about their government and,
> in a general sense, how hateful some people are, and why one can grow to
> mistrust and lose all respect for others.
>
> Ron had privately sent me a change yesterday to the language surrounding the
> "Nakhla dog" on the website he administers for NASA. He offered two different
> versions for my review. One was the status quo and totally unacceptable to
> me, the other was less ambiguous and I suggested changing a couple of words.
>
> He replied back yesterday with a version that was accurate and acceptable, a
> version he marked- "Better." This was followed by the same unacceptable
> version from the day before now marked "I like this even better."
>
> I agreed to his, HIS, version #1 marked "Better," thanked him for his
> efforts, and mentioned that this peaceful settlement should be announced to
> you, the m-list for "closure."
>
> I have just received a response from Ron. He's refusing to accept HIS OWN
> version of the story that I agreed with. The message reads in part, "Like I
> said, I like this even better," followed by the version I'd refused twice.
>
> His message ends, "I already changed the phrasing a week ago anyway."
>
> Ron has never offered a shred of meaningful proof that the dog existed, and I
> have in my files copies of support for my take on the dog from the most
> senior and academic members of this list and from the world's great
> meteoriticists. I'm honored by their interest.
>
> As for the dog, the story should and will exist as "a story," but it's
> scientifically dead.
>
> I won't waste my time in the future entertaining the vacuous imaginations of
> such an arrogant and duplicitous person as Ron Baalke.
>
> Kevin Kichinka
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Received on Fri 25 Jan 2002 03:49:45 PM PST


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