Morten St George Theory

[-JKP-]

It was also indicated that many of those 124 plants were found, of course, in Italy, so I imagine you and Koen must now be overjoyed.

You have this crazy idea that I WANT the manuscript to be European even though I keep telling you I don't care where it's from. I don't! I was hoping it might be from Madagascar or the Canary Islands or Central or East Asia or something interesting like that but the data doesn't point in that direction.

For the record, there is a pocket in the U.S. that has almost the same climatic conditions as sections of Italy where these kinds of plants might be found. But it is not Meso-America.

For my part, however, I am not ready to concede. My esoteric sources are adamant in pointing to the Americas and, although written as works of fiction, they have not yet been proven wrong on anything.

Concede what? I'm not against your THEORY. I'm against sloppy research and unsupported assumptions. I don't CARE if it turns out to be from the Americas. I don't CARE if it turns out to be Cathars. I DO CARE about good research. Your research is full of holes and premature, unsupported assumptions.

Instead of seeking out the data and following it where it leads, you are imposing your theory on the data. A theory is like putting on a pair of red glasses, which tints everything so that it's hard to differentiate the actual colors. Everything looks reddish. But if you take off the glasses (remove the theory and just look at the data), you might see a broader range of colors.