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Friday 16 June 2006
by irna

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The "family circle"

The last part of the Osmanagic’s team (see the previous texts about the "ghost", unknown or "embellished" scientists) is what I would call the "family circle": people which place in the project seems to depend on their familial or friendly relations with Mr. Osmanagic. First among these people, (...)
Wednesday 14 June 2006
by irna

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Using the appeal to authority

I have shown, here and there, that Mr. Osmanagic’s team was partly constituted of "ghost scientists", either people totally unknown of the academic world, or foreign scientists that were never aware that they had been included in the team. However, along with the "ghost scientists", there are in (...)
Wednesday 14 June 2006
by irna

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Google doesn’t like Bosnian scientists

I have shown here that a large part of the foreign scientists, claimed by Mr. Osmanagic in 2006 to be part of his team, never intended in fact to participate in his project. If one now takes an interest in the local members of the "scientific team", one will soon discover that Google, as well (...)
Tuesday 13 June 2006
by irna

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Ghost scientists

According to the Foundation website, and the daily news given by the Foundation, Mr. Osmanagic has been able to gather, for the excavations of the "pyramid of the Sun", an important team, both qualified and international. The composition of this team was given on the Foundation website (a (...)
Monday 12 June 2006
by irna

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Semir Osmanagic

Mr. Semir Osmanagic, born in 1960 in Bosnia, and living in the United States (Houston, Texas), presented as an archaeologist (en) in the first news, is in fact a businessman. According to the article about him in Wikipedia (en), he is the owner of the Met Company (en) in Houston. In Sarajevo (...)
Sunday 11 June 2006
by irna

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Foreword

Why should one take an interest in Mr. Osmanagic’s personality, or in the personality of the members of the team mustered by the "Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation"? The pyramid supporters usually reject the questions pertaining to Mr. Osmanagic’s, or his collaborators’, qualifications, saying (...)

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Monday 2 May 2011

From Mensur Omerbashich, King of Bosnia and other realms:

"Gravity is found herein to be the repulsive mechanical vibration of the aether, meaning that aether-detection experiments have yet to become sensitive enough."

"To test my claim I propose a Space mission to collect on-site measurements of eigenperiods of the Sun, its planets, and their satellites."

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Wednesday 16 February 2011

From Nenad Djurdjevic, alias "Hyperborean", trying to explain why the Turin Polytechnic report has never been published:

"To reveal the chemical composition of the high strength concrete of the Bosnian pyramids would be like revealing the formula for Coca-Cola. I do not think that Osmanagic, who is an excellent businessman, would be so naive and stupid as to do so. Just imagine the value of this formula in construction."

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Wednesday 16 February 2011

From Paolo Debertolis, alias "Pablito", dentist and big fan of pseudoscience, about his interlocutor who was trying to understand why the "reports" from the Foundation were not translated or not published:

«Ma come medico credo che il problema sia da ricercare da qualche altra parte e sia di natura psicologica.»
«But as a doctor I think the problem is to be found somewhere else and is psychological in nature.»

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Wednesday 16 February 2011

From Mrs. Sabina Alikadic, journalist, today Mr. Osmanagic’s wife, in an email to her future husband:

"So, we’re cheating for the sake of truth :)"

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Wednesday 16 February 2011

From Dr. Muhamed Pasic, who needed one year to study samples of sandstone from the "pyramid of the Moon":

"I came to very important results, on which basis I conclude that it is a sediment of siliceous origin."