… yelled Friedrich Jansson in his latest production. My experience with "Revisionist" charlatans suggests that they accuse their opponents of "lying" when they know they are short of arguments, and Jansson seems to be no exception. Anyway, let’s see what he’s got.
Jansson:
Quite the opposite, actually. If you want to determine whether a concentration of corpses in mass graves suggested by documentary, eyewitness and archaeological evidence was physically possible, an experiment showing how much human body mass can be made to fit into a given space is a much better marker than a "study" of burial space in mass graves that (to put it politely) were not necessarily filled in the same manner, within the same time and with the corpses having the same mass and weight as the mass graves they are being compared to. But don’t expect Jansson to ever understand this.
Jansson:
Well, the "lie" accusation is certainly vulgar, like much else of what Jansson writes. And it is also quite silly, as we shall see.
Jansson:
The photo in question is this one:
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The heads of the male adults are above a lateral slab nailed to the box on its open side, and the head of one of the adults is a little above the top of the box, which looks like this:
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On the following photo, one can see that the heads of the male adults standing upright are just a little above the top of the box:
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One can also see that, by crouching a little or just lowering their heads, the standing male adults could get their heads below the top of the box, in such a way as to allow for the open top of the box to be covered.
So while the tops of the male adults’ heads were slightly outside the space of 26,680.50 cubic inches or 0.44 cubic meters (the height of the box was 60.5 inches = 1.5367 meters and the height of the tallest adult was 67 inches = 1.7018 meters, so if he was standing fully upright his head would have protruded a full 0,1651 centimeters above the top of the box, though the third picture shown above suggests that he was not standing fully upright and the distance was less), they could have easily fit inside that space.
Which, for the purpose of my density calculations, is the same as if the adults had crouched or bent a little more, or just lowered their heads, and thus been completely inside the aforementioned space.
Which, in turn, means that Jansson just made a splendid fool of himself.
And what is more, the last of the photos shown above suggests that another one or two children could have been stuffed inside the box if the test persons’ ability to breathe had been no concern, as would have been the case if the test persons had been dead.
I hope our readers enjoy the rest of Jansson’s musings about "yet another" of my "deliberate deceptions" (Jansson must have been gazing into a mirror, or projecting standard "Revisionist" practices) as much as I did.
Jansson:
In his ludicrous mis-analysis of burial space, Roberto Muelenkamp has made heavy use of an experiment of Charles Provan. Obviously, this use is quite absurd – if you want to study burial space in mass graves, is makes sense to study burial space in mass graves, rather than attempt to infer something from a small-scale experiment in which a few people, mostly children, and a doll attempted to squeeze into a small space.
Quite the opposite, actually. If you want to determine whether a concentration of corpses in mass graves suggested by documentary, eyewitness and archaeological evidence was physically possible, an experiment showing how much human body mass can be made to fit into a given space is a much better marker than a "study" of burial space in mass graves that (to put it politely) were not necessarily filled in the same manner, within the same time and with the corpses having the same mass and weight as the mass graves they are being compared to. But don’t expect Jansson to ever understand this.
Jansson:
Yet Muehlenkamp wasn’t satisfied with that level of absurdity, but felt the need to enhance his results with a vulgar lie.
Well, the "lie" accusation is certainly vulgar, like much else of what Jansson writes. And it is also quite silly, as we shall see.
Jansson:
Muehlenkamp writes (manifesto, p. 418):
Provan’s box had a volume of 21 x 21 x 60.5 = 26,680.50 cubic inches or 0.44 cubic meters, and he managed to squeeze 8 people (including the doll representing a baby) into that space – a concentration of 18.2 per cubic meter.
Muehlenkamp has recently repeated the same analysis (mainly just spamming his previous writings).
Provan does indeed give the height of 60.5 inches. However, it is entirely clear that this is the merely height of his box, not of the space his subjects fit into. In fact, he writes:
I had my woodworking friend construct a plywood box with a floor space of 21 inches by 21 inches, one glass side, one open side, and an open top.
It is completely evident from one of Provan’s photos that the people extended above the height of the box.
The photo in question is this one:
The heads of the male adults are above a lateral slab nailed to the box on its open side, and the head of one of the adults is a little above the top of the box, which looks like this:
On the following photo, one can see that the heads of the male adults standing upright are just a little above the top of the box:
One can also see that, by crouching a little or just lowering their heads, the standing male adults could get their heads below the top of the box, in such a way as to allow for the open top of the box to be covered.
So while the tops of the male adults’ heads were slightly outside the space of 26,680.50 cubic inches or 0.44 cubic meters (the height of the box was 60.5 inches = 1.5367 meters and the height of the tallest adult was 67 inches = 1.7018 meters, so if he was standing fully upright his head would have protruded a full 0,1651 centimeters above the top of the box, though the third picture shown above suggests that he was not standing fully upright and the distance was less), they could have easily fit inside that space.
Which, for the purpose of my density calculations, is the same as if the adults had crouched or bent a little more, or just lowered their heads, and thus been completely inside the aforementioned space.
Which, in turn, means that Jansson just made a splendid fool of himself.
And what is more, the last of the photos shown above suggests that another one or two children could have been stuffed inside the box if the test persons’ ability to breathe had been no concern, as would have been the case if the test persons had been dead.
I hope our readers enjoy the rest of Jansson’s musings about "yet another" of my "deliberate deceptions" (Jansson must have been gazing into a mirror, or projecting standard "Revisionist" practices) as much as I did.