Re: paleonet Academic satire

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>  None of these satires focus on geologists or paleontologists. It seems to me that we were portrayed mainly as boring professors or evil oilmen until
>  "Jurassic Park". Any examples?<

Not exactly satire, but Geology Today some years back had a two-part series on geologists in mysteries.  R. Austin Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke, hero of several stories, comes to mind as someone neither boring nor evil with paleontological skills (e.g., identifying the microfossils in a piece of chalk from the scene of the crime enables him to identify a quarry to search for more clues).  Although not primarily satire, one Dr. Thorndyke story (The Stoneware Monkey) does tend to disparage pretentions of the modern art scene.  

    Dr. David Campbell 
    Old Seashells 
    University of Alabama 
    Biodiversity & Systematics 
    Dept. Biological Sciences 
    Box 870345 
    Tuscaloosa, AL  35487-0345 USA
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