This is hardly worth arguing about. But, I do have to say that I am highly disappointed by the fact that most of the science that has been discussed in these bulletin board posts over the years has been so poor. We did have a geology expert here some time in the past who I thought was pretty sharp, a Dr. Whiteside. But he stopped posting for some reason and went elsewhere.

I will also add that if a person is going to present himself or herself as an authority on some subject then he or she needs to have actually done some research on it.

Several years ago another researcher and I took a fairly thorough look at Shan’s method. The report we generated is still somewhere on Shan’s Web site the last I checked. And we concluded that is method does probably generate some good data.

There is more information on that type of technology that I have more recently seen. And I believe that it supports Shan’s methodology. But there are two possible explanation for what is happening with his method. I understand them but don’t know which is the active one. That might get resolved some time in the next six months.

So, it sounds like you are saying his method doesn’t work. On the other hand I am guessing that you have never taken a careful look at it as I have and probably know almost nothing about it. You have likely never done any research on it. And so, how can you say anything authoritative about it? Stating that other researchers have checked on these matters, that they were born having that knowledge, or that they somehow magically know things like that etc. etc. is just “hearsay” science. Its not real science.

Now that all of those files I have been discussing have been stored at my Web site I am finally, after all of these years, getting set to start contacting governments directly to try to get them to take a serious interest in various forecasting programs including mine. And there are quite a few of them out there.

And the way to convince them that they need to get moving is to explain to them in detail what they might expect if they don’t get moving. Most governments etc. are really not aware of just of many problems unexpected earthquakes could cause or how extremely serious some of those problems could be. Faced with that type of information they might decide that it is time to get moving on this.

There is probably one additional Web page that I will store at my Web site. It is an expandable observations page that list all of the different important things that can be learned by examining the data on the Year Charts picture files.