A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009

Rebuttal to a Paper on Wormholes

In a recent paper on wormholes (gr-qc/0503097), the author of that paper demonstrated that he didn’t know what he was talking about. In this paper I correct the author’s naive erroneous misconceptions.

Inamgaon: A Chalcolithic Settlement in Western India

O UR excavations at Nasik and more recently at Jorwe (District Ahmednagar, Maharashtra) revealed for the first time the existence of the chalco lithic phase in the prehistory of the Deccan (Sankalia and Deo 1955). The comparative stratigraphical position of this culture, however, was determined in our excavations at Nasik (Sankalia and Deo 1955); Subsequent explorations and excavations of selec...

Risk homeostasis hypothesis: a rebuttal.

In his latest overview published as an “Opinion”, Wilde asserts that “The theory of risk homeostasis (also known as ‘risk compensation’) was primarily developed and validated in the area of road safety”. Nothing could be further from the truth. These so-called theories that purport to explain human behavior in the face of risk are nothing more than hypotheses with a large body of empirical evid...

A second rebuttal on health.

This essay replies to critics since 1995 of my "biostatistical theory" (BST) of health. According to the BST, a pathological condition is a state of statistically species-subnormal biological part-functional ability, relative to sex and age. Theoretical health, the total absence of pathological conditions, is then a value-free scientific notion. Recent critics offer a mixture of old and new obj...

Is Evolution a Fact? — a Rebuttal to an Evolutionist’s Claims —