The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[asteckley]

I won't comment on the Marci Wax thread since I was sick when that was going on and I haven't even caught up with everything yet. I am not going to read that and then judge after the facts. Let's just start with a clean slate again and make an effort to avoid long discussions about your theory in threads that started out about something else. (I know you are often not the 'instigator' ) 

If there are any further bleeding wounds, please PM me. These kinds of public spats don't reflect well on anyone involved.

Koen, with all due respect -- and I do respect you and your management of this forum immensely -- if you have not even read the posts which launched this nonsense -- and say you don't intend to --- then how can you possibly comment on the situation as you have?!
You have just made accusations based on what you assume was said and done in that initial thread.

There was no "long discussion about [Rich's] theory" in that thread".  There was a discussion about the "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" phrase that was brought up -(by the thread's author!) in regard to the Marci Wax, and that was being responded to. -- it was as  on-topic as one could possibly expect in a forum like this.  And in response to it, Tavie decided to shut down the discussion and close the thread.  The continuation of the whole thing is really on Tavie, and now you.

And frankly, the practice of "I am going to accuse you publicly, but you have to respond to me privately" is immature.