NEIL ALTMAN'S NONSENSE has just been reprinted by the Toronto Star. (For those not familiar, he claims that the Dead Sea Scrolls are medieval and contain Chinese characters.) The article was originally published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette last June. I commented on it then here and I posted more comments later in June here. My conclusion in the latter post applies more than ever: "Altman and his friends are making fools of a good many journalists and newspaper editors, who don't have sense enough to vet their claims independently with real specialists."

Note also this essay by Jay C. Treat.

(Heads up, Joseph I. Lauer.)