Taxacom: Marie Tharp

[Tony Rees]

Not completely un-noticed (now at least):
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Regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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On Fri, 29 Sept 2023 at 00:41, John Grehan via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
wrote:

> If you've never heard of Marie Tharp, then you are not alone. Never heard
> of her myself before now. In the 'official' histories of plate tectonics
> the discovery of the mid ocean ridges goes to Heezen, and Ewing, the head
> of the Lamont lab, who in 1956 published on the discovery of a ridge
> covering about 40,000 miles of the ocean's floor. Only it was never their
> discovery, but that of Tharp, who was, of course, not credited for this
> (and does this not remind you of the double helix scam?). Tharp was given
> the tedious and detailed task of mapping the ocean seafloor from echo
> soundings (I guess the men were too important to get their hands on a
> pencil). "After weeks of looking at the data and plotting the lines, Tharp
> had noticed a pattern. She had about half a dozen lines running across the
> ocean, and many had a v-shaped dip in a similar spot, right on top of an
> underwater mountain chain, the Mid-Atlantic Rift. It looked like a rift.
> But it couldn't be, Heezen told her, because that would be too much
> like continental
> drift
> <
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> >.
> He and "almost everyone else at Lamont, and in the United States, thought
> continental drift was impossible," according to Tharp. It would take Heezen
> months to accept what he'd dismissed as Tharp's "girl talk."
>
> So once again, the  history of science here is so much bs (and ironically b
> = bull in both noun and adjective). Science is supposed to be about the
> discovery of knowledge, but all too often it is also about power and
> suppression. As noted by Derrida, for all knowledge gained, something
> escapes and is lost. Only in such cases as this the loss is deliberate. At
> least history can sometimes be revisited. The worry is what continues to go
> on in the present.
>
> Cheers, John
>
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