Talk:The Sirius Mystery

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http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0400/sirius_part2.html
UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries Donning Press, 1982 
by James Oberg
I. Ridpath (1978): "Investigating the Sirius ‘Mystery’", Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Article 
http://www.csicop.org/si/7809/sirius.html
The Dogon Mystery
author Erich von Däniken
Legendary Times
2005
The 23 Phenomenon
Robert Anton Wilson
Fortean Times UK
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/396/the_23_phenomenon.html 
http://www.siriusresearchgroup.com/archives/Dogon.shtml
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0644/98007783-t.html
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/03/21.html
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s148930.htm 
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/6.htm
This should help with fact verification/cites/determining notability. Note that not all are "reliable sources" themselves, but seem to point down a rabbit hole that may lead to more good sources. Spazure 09:53, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some help with sourcing.. 

message: Why is this article, that is about the book The Sirius Mystery, spends most of its entry debunking the book?  Is this how an encyclopedia should be? 76.20.197.63 (talk) 05:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased Article? 

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message: These edits are hopelessly WP:FRINGE and not WP:NPOV. Please read our policies. Thanks - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:17, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  February 2019 

message: Aside from self-published author page, no in-depth biographical information from independent secondary sources available to construct an NPOV BLP. Subject's book is more notable than the author. LuckyLouie (talk) 13:48, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, it really is the fault of Temple and his publishers that they didn't promote the book. There are zero secondary sources that mention it. WP:NAUTHOR anyone? - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:39, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Robert K. G. Temple]] into [[The Sirius Mystery]] 

message: In the first section, the book is labeled "pseudo-scientific", but the citation is just to another book. Why the preference in assigning authority from one author over another? 107.13.52.124 (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 15:39, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: St. Martin's Press has no reputation of publishing science books, and there is no reason to assume that "The Sirius Mystery" had an editor familiar with scientific procedures. The opposite is true for Springer Publishing. Also, Temple has no scientific background while "Andrew May has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from Manchester University" . On top of that, as you can see from the article, Ian Ridpath, Carl Sagan and James Oberg, all more reputable than Temple, also see very little value in Temple's ideas. It is very obvious that May's assessment is the conensus among those scientists who are interested in pseudoscience. --Hob Gadling (talk) 16:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can one non-peer reviewed book discredit another? 

message: Hmmm, so the knowledge of the Dogon could only have come from European explorers, with their bibles in hand and pith helmets on head. The blackies in their grass skirts and cultural infancy can only have kind of picked things up as they earnestly absorbed everything that the whities gave them.
You are racist scum. Trash.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.232.16.216 (talk) 21:11, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing to do with bibles of pith helmets, rather with high-resolution telescopes which are needed for that specific knowledge about Sirius and which the Dogon did not have at the time. Simple logic, not racism. --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:16, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deeply racist Wikipedia