Oh, wow! My post from last May, on "The Holy Grail is a Dragon Bloodline", picked up a response, supposedly from the original author of the piece. (I can only assume that somebody else edits his articles for grammar and punctuation, though.)

We love teh intarwebs.

(I may have to start signing off as "butza brain".)   8^)
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"Genetic (sorry, gentic) testing has proved a link"?

No evidence of that cited, I notice. What link, anyway?

Has the relevant chapter been dropped, by the way? I can't see any trace of it now.
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I get a wikipedia hit with:



"The word Greek, Latin Graeci, is from the same root, originating from an obscure Balkan tribe, the Graioi, which the ancients took to be "the old ones." In other words, Sarmatian is the satem equivalent of centum Greek. A genetic commonality would require an original in Proto-Indo-European. Such a connection is speculative at this point. The Iranians, however, were the last Indo-Europeans on what is thought by many to have been the original range in Kazakhstan."



...so he's not completely fabricating things from whole cloth. (Instead he appears to be attempting to weave a tapestry entirely out of clutched straws...)   8^)



Yeah, looks like the chapter's been taken down. Wish I'd taken a copy of it; it was good reading. Still, have got the most mind-boggling bits saved.

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I can help you there. Really, though . . . "The Goats of Hermes were Goths"?

It's likely that a fair number of the data are genuine or plausible - or at least not entirely made up - but that the supposed connections are all wildly implausible. Sometimes this is just eccentricity, but sometimes it's actually some kind of thought disorder. I have a friend who wrote a book like that once. Lovely bloke, but he hasn't been out of hospital much for years.
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Ah, thanks.

I would have presumed some flavour of paranoid schizophrenia, but then everything I know about psychiatry I learned from TV.
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Well, something like that would be one of my guesses, but judging by the tone of someone's writing is a dangerous business.
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