“I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.”

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur.

But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that.

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as ‘dino-fuzz’, have nothing to do with bird feathers…

Those who arrived on America’s tanks are not credible in Iraq.

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you.