Yesterday i posted something on a crazy find about a hominid in Australia. It was sloppy posting, and i need to remember to run names through search engines before i post anything so outrageous. First Gutter Goblin commented back on an old post, saying:
I’ve been looking into some of this Rex Gilroy stuff, and to be frank, all of his “fossils†look like bits of rock that have a very superficial resemblance to a skull, but look lots more like, well, bits of rock. I have worked with hominiid cranial material for three years now, and am doing PhD research in physical anthropology, so I know in general what a skull looks like, even allowing for fossilisation and post-burial distortion/damage. Rexy is indulging in wishful thinking here, methinks.
I’m pretty skeptical about the dates Gilroy assigns to his “fossils,†too. There is no info on what form of dating technique was used (eg, was it potassium-argon dating or some other form?). I know that there are several dating techniques available that range in their effectivness from thousands (carbon dating) to millions (K-Ar dating) of years in their effective range. Anyone know how Rex dated his material?
I also searched on whether there have been any analyses by professionals on the Gilroy material, and came up blank. Considering his reputation as a cryptozoologist and paranormal researcher, I don’t think he has the background to do objective research on this material – he has a theory that he wants to prove, and will probably see evidence that supports his theories in a friggen’ cloud formations, I reckon. This dude reckons humans evolved in Australia, and that there is evidence of some past super-civilisation in that continent, but I can’t find a single published paper by him or anyone else that makes these claims.
Ignore anything said by Rex Gilroy, is my advice.
And then this morning Trikimiki adds:
Rex Gilroy is a nutter. Check out my recent post on his ‘work’ at http://blogark.com. In the next day or so I will be adding some new comments to my post that come from a few other Australian archaeologists who have seen first hand some of his ‘finds’. Basically, he’s not a professional and likes to make up things!
Many of his finds are big lumps of calcite that look sort of like a cranium endocast. He’s also right into yowies (sort of an Australian version of the bigfoot – but smaller), UFOs and all many of things. I’m not necessarily against unconventional ideas (they’re often the most interesting!) but you need some sort of physical evidence to support these sort of claims. Peer review is an important and well established part of academic research (scientific and non-scientific) and shouldn’t be ignored. The journalist should be sacked.
Beautiful. Thank you, folks. It warms my heart to get these kind of comments so quickly after a dearth of posting for so long. Please keep me straight and forgive the gullibility. I embrace discipline this rewarding.
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Gilroy not credible, who says your credible by the way.
As for the rubbish about no academic thinks anything of his fossils is a blatant lie. I was with Rex Gilroy at the Australian Mueums repository where two Anthropologists wanted two of Rex’s so called rocks.
The Brisbane Museum also wanted his collection to study…
For a start one of Rex’s fossils has 13 fossilised teeth is in pure ironstone…
As For Dr Ritchies attack on Rex, what has a fossil fish expert got to do with fossil man in Australia??
Dr Ritchie has for 30 years come out of the woodwork anytime his precious Aboriginals/Kooris were shown to not be the first Australians and because Rex started to show proof of this in his Pre Aboriginal/Koori race the “Uru”.
Australia is now governed by what Aboroginals tell academics not the other way round. This insane political correctness where no academic can say aything, except attack people such as Rex who are trying to show the rich histroy of Australia and not a backwater occupied by stone age Aboriginals/Korris.
I notice you removed the link showing the skulls the ANU scientists wanted, thats okay just allow posts that stay in the secluded thoughts of academics in Australia.
ABorigines now have stopped all the skeltal remains from being compared with other skulls,, thats the true scene which Dr Ritchie is partr of, not science, just dont rock the Aborigina/Koori boat.
Try to find photos of Kow swamp remains of Mungo man-lady in recent books…
Rexy is an attention seeking phony! He’s just resurfaced here yet again with outrageous claims about the so called Gympie Pyramid, which clearly is a naturally occurring structure. I’ve known of Rex for over 40 years and as a serious naturalist/biologist with thousands of hours of field work behind me can effectively dismiss any Gilroy claims as pure attention seeking nonsense.
I see…and your what again?? Do you have proof of this defemation of Rex’s charachter that you would be willing to stand up in a court of law and defame him to his face??
Im not sure if you have heard of the Australian internet laws dealingwith defemation but you have defamed Rex in the above post on what?-whim of yours!
Well respected all over the place. With an attitude such as yours who would trust what you spout?
It seems to me that people such as yourself are afraid of the evidence Rex has aquired in 50 years of research. The most vocal critics are those who do not even research the subjects quoted.
Rex has never said the Gympie Pyramid wasnt a natural occuring structure at all, why write that nonsense. What Rex has claimed is that the summit and some of the structure was utilised and parts carved out, thats the difference to what your claiming.
Your claiming that Rex said that the entire hill was carved, that is false and you are just against Rex and it shows. What have you done to make you such an expert on things you dont even research?
What has a biologist to do with Egyptians sailing to Australia?
Your field work has nothing to do with these researchers so why say you do!
So you are stating you have been to the Gympie Pyramid in the 70′s before it was vandalised to make your assumptions?
Re-surfaced where?
Having read the foregoing information I would like to clear up a few of the pieces of mis-information that is contained here.
Rex and I have put our money where his mouth is and as such we stand by what has been stated in His books. I wonder if any of the detractors here have taken to trouble to really read what he has to say. Any more than the detractors have not taken the time to contact Rex and discuss their difference of opinions with him and to listen to him.
Rex certainly does not make any of the old fashioned money out of his researches and he is totally focussed on his ‘work’ and his writings.
In any of Rex’s statements he doesn’t directly say that ‘this is so’ he merely says that ‘”his is my theory and this is what I have found that I beleived supports my theory, keep an open mind and go look for yourself for the evidence”.
The Gympie Pyramid as it is today is nothing like it was in the mid-1970s
when we first saw it and it was thanks to disclosing what it possibly was and its location that the vandalism – the results of which can be seen today – were perpetrated.
Thanks Greg for your comments and your support
I would like to show Mr Gilroy a few things around the Geelong area. Very peculiar indeed. There certainly are some mysterious things in this country. Long live the Uru!
I have found stone carvings, tools and weapons where i live, They are not aboriginal……….
There is also a huge rock on the highway with a carved face on it covered in graffiti, this shows the intelligence of modern man.
After reading Rex and Heather’s articles on the Uru, I now know that is exactly what we have here in the Blue Mountains.
When will thick heads wake up take notice, hopefully then they will stop using the rocks in stone walls and rock gardens.
Also the cultural heritage laws are stupid, stating all carved stones are aboriginal ……this needs to be changed or we will learn nothing…
It is individuals, just like Mr Gilroy, who erode the Assyriologist falsehoods, dare question Biblical nonsense, and kick the chair of the snoozing tenured, to reveal with in the dust of time, elements of man’s true evolution.