Paper Slams 'Alien' Mummy Study - Coast to Coast AM

That online research paper (March 22, 2018) proving the "Atacama Alien" was no extraterrestrial has been severely attacked by another group of researchers. No, these are not Steven Greer associates, nor do they question the March finding that the child was human. In fact, these eight scholars, writing in the in-progress September 2018 issue of the International Journal of Paleopathology, argue that the humanity of little "Ata" should never have been in question, having been established five years ago. Further, "there was no scientific rationale to undertake genomic analyses of Ata," the genetic results for Ata are inconclusive for mutations that would cause her deformities, and in actuality these observed "'anomalies' represent normal skeletal development in the foetus, cranial moulding from delivery, and potential post-mortem taphonomic effects." The two research teams behind these different papers have radically dissimilar academic backgrounds and this makes it harder to compare the science involved. More certainly damning, however, is the charge that the earlier 2018 team's process was unethical and illegal, and threatens "to undo the decades of work anthropologists and others have put in to correct past colonialist tendencies." Tim Binnall has a good summary of the criticisms. (WM)

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