Checking Sources

I read some interesting news linked from Claude Mariottini's blog, the most interesting to me being scientific viability of Red Sea crossing. After some googling, I came to find out that it was old news from the beginning of 2004 (link to mentioned Moscow Times article, and unmentioned Washington Times article). Other than blogs and online articles here and there, I can't find anything else about the two supposed primary researchers, Alexei Androsov and Naum Volzinger, which makes me even more suspicious. This all reminds of my Language of Politics and Advertising, since it highlights the importance of primary sources (i.e., the article from the Russian Academy of Sciences, which so far has come up empty), without which it is really hard to even evaluate a claim.

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