“Article” on meteorite find in the UK

Is this a meteorite?

Check out this article…the meteorite is described as
“black with a shiny crystal-like gleam”
“thought it was a lump of coal”

Are we sure it is not just a piece of slag or maybe a tektite. Hey, good for the kid for finding a rock in the back yard, but did they verify the specimen with ANYONE else besides the parents and eBay? It doesn’t say so in the article. Sloppy reporting for sure!

Stuff tends to spread like wildfire on the internet, and anything that drags you away from Twitter or foxy bingo online (www.foxybingo.com) will usually be either something completely amazing or, as more commonly experienced, a complete and utter hoax. I genuinely worry about the people that fall for this stuff – if you’re buying meteories off the internet, then chances are you’re probably being scammed. I could go outside and buy some red sandstone, take a welder to it, and claim it was from Mars. Would I make a ton of money? Probably.

Mike, thanks for the e-mail.

I don’t pay much attention to fossils, I’m just not into them. Don’t get me wrong, I do love the way they look, I love to dig them up, but I just don’t get INTO them.

So, I stay away from proclaiming how fake the fakes are.
A readed named Mike sent me an e-mail showing me a real Mosasaur jaw (see below)

Versus, these things that look like fakes from 100 yards away…

I’ve sent out e-mails and phone calls to the dealers selling fake ones on eBay and if they don’t take them down by this weekend I’ll out them for you.

Just simply put…stay away from bulk fossils from Morocco. Buy from a quality dealer. Understand, good fossils are expensive, there is a lot of time and preperation put into real fossils. If you want something good, it isn’t cheap. If you want something cheap, it isn’t good. (unless that is the advertising price on The-Vug.com! =)

A year ago I posted that the Wikipedia article on Azeztulite had the best information. Unfortunatly during that time there have been dozens of edits, drawing the attention of others who wanted the entry removed to stop the fighting between the scammers and the mineral community.

Now the link for Azeztulite redirect to Charmstone. What is a Charmstone? I’ve delt with metaphysical believers for over 10 years, I’ve NEVER heard the word Charmstone. The idea of using the word “Charmstone” in this field is rather foolish, ill advised move when describing Azeztulite. Many of the e-mails from Metaphysical users who have thanked me for calling out this obvious scam. It isn’t a scam that is harming the mineral collecting community, it is targeting the metaphysical crowd. If you are metaphysical you have two options, understand the direct parallels from minerals and nature or be part of the group that believes whatever flash in the pan cure all comes out.

The crux of the matter is that we have a scam being used to seperate money from the uneducated. Wikipedia will no longer be a sounding off point for us as a mineralogical community to educate the public.

Oh well, it worked for awhile and the popularity of Azeztulite has been falling off the radar…

Here is the Charmstone page, now the redirect page from Azeztulite

This is what it USED to look like. It should have remained this way

Wikipedia is a great source of information, but they have failed the public on this one.

PS, looks like this is happening at an alarming pace in general, check out this article in New ScienceAfter the Wikipedia Boom