Saturday, November 19, 2022

RIP Kendrick Frazier — with a big caveat

Unlike Massimo Pigliucci, with some good encomia here, I didn't know Ken in person.

Unlike Massimo on the flip side, though, growing up in the Four Corners and deepening my interest in the world of the Old Ones as an adult, I also knew him, beyond skepticism, as a photographer of and writer about the world of the Anasazi.

Unlike myself until just now, reading his Wikipedia page, I did not know that from 1983-2006 he was a full-time staffer at Sandia National Laboratories. Related to that, I don't know how blank of checks he wrote to either nuclear weapons or to peaceful nuclear fission power being "just around the corner." Sadly, half the hits on Google when I search "Kendrick Frazier" + "nuclear weapons" are bits by UFO nutters claiming that there has been a big conspiracy to cover up UFOs' connection to said weapons.

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