Talk:Masaaki Kimura

pseudoscience or not
I can show Japanese references which are regarded as established theories for Yamataikoku and earthquake prediction arguments, but there is even no mention to his name in these books, because his works are so far away from mainstream researchers'. As for so-called "Yonaguni Monument", he only published following two articles in scientific journals.
 * Masaaki Kimura et.al.（2001） RESEARCH FOR SUBMARINE RUINS OFF YONAGUNI, JAPAN. Bull.Fac.Sci.,Univ.Ryukyus（琉球大学理学部紀要）, no.72, p.49-72.
 * 「総特集 沖縄の海底遺跡（？）と地殻変動」, 月刊地球, 2000年２月号

Both of the journals have no peer review system. In the university bulletin article, he used a Graham Hancock's book as a reference. You can also check one of his book's title 「海底宮殿 沈んだ琉球古陸と"失われたムー大陸"」, which is translated as "Seabed Palace: Submerged Ryukyu Old Land and the Lost Continent of Mu". Do you still think he is a respectable researcher? Asato Shijun (director of the Okinawa Prefectural Archaeological Center) and Hara Toshio (Kobe University) strongly criticize Kimura's work. The rest of the academic society just ignored him. --Cervelo21 (talk) 00:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I am aware that Kimura's works are *controversial*, and we can say that much in the article. But whether he is *respectable* or not is a POV statement, and as such is not appropriate for Wikipedia.  Moreover, a scientist does not become "non-respectable" just because he believes (and defends) a impopular or implausible view.  History is full of examples of scientists which were ignored or ridiculed by their peers for decades, and then proved right in the end. (Check the history of plate tectonics, for example.) History also has many examples of very respectable and famous scientists who strenuously defended totally bogus theories, to their deaths.  Besides, while I cannot judge Kimura's work as a geologist, I cannot find anything blatantly wrong with his archaeological theories; so the label of "pseudoscience" is quite unwarranted.  I have seen no evidence that he may be deliberately trying to deceive or mislead his readers, as did, say, Erich von Däniken, George Adamski, William Frederick Koch, and James Churchward.  One may find his theories extremely unlikely, but probabilities are not objective facts -- only subjective measures of faith.  In any case, whatever one's opinion on Kimura's work, one must respect the man.  Al the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 03:22, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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