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Muehlenkamp goes full retard

Roberto Muehlenkamp has dusted off his weapons of mass bullshitting again, and has truly excelled himself, raising idiocy to an art form. He must be fighting to defend his title as stupidest member of the holocaust controversies blogging team from … Continue reading

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Muehlenkamp mangles mass cremation calculations

In his contribution to the HC manifesto, Roberto Muehlenkamp based his calculations of cremation fuel requirements on a wild extrapolation from his misinterpretation of some experiments by the veterinarians Lothes and Profé. Prior to entering into this dead end of … Continue reading

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A sample of Muehlenkamp’s deceptions about his “empirical” evidence on cremation

Roberto Muehlenkamp’s favored methodology consists of long strings of extrapolations absent any empirical cross-checking, a system which allows him to fiddle his figures so as to obtain the results desired. For the sake of appearances, however, he does have to … Continue reading

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Pulling numbers out of thin air: on a fabrication underlying Muehlenkamp’s cremation analysis

In his contribution to the HC manifesto, Roberto Muehlenkamp based his analysis of the Reinhardt cremations on a 1902 paper by the veterinarians Lothes and Profé, who he falsely supposes achieved complete cremation of certain anthrax carcasses. Leaving aside his … Continue reading

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Another act from Muehlenkamp’s comedy of errors: 50 kg of wood has the same energy content as 12 kg of wood

Roberto Muehlenkamp’s attempts to analyse burial space and cremation are filled with mathematical errors, as I have previously illustrated in the case of his erroneous derivation of a population mean weight as equalling the weight of an individual at (supposed) … Continue reading

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More Sobibor Witnesses

I recently mentioned the testimony of Srul Jankiel Fajgenbaum, builder of the Sobibor electrocution chamber. Here I will outline some aspects of the testimonies from the same file in which Fajgenbaum’s statement appears. These witnesses appear to have been largely … Continue reading

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Further remarks on Ettling and car fires

In my post Muehlenkamp’s Ettling imposture, I explained why the experiments of Bruce Ettling offer no support whatsoever for Roberto Muehlenkamp’s delusions regarding the challenges involved in carrying out mass cremation. Muehlenkamp has responded with a long missive that takes … Continue reading

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Muehlenkamp’s Ettling imposture

In a long series of writings (e.g. manifesto, p. 468), Roberto Muehlenkamp (the only person currently attempting the technical feasibility of holocaust burial and cremation claims) has made rhetorical use of a 1969 paper by Bruce Ettling in order to … Continue reading

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A remedial note on cremains

Given that the posters at the (censored) “Skeptics Society” forum, including the holocaust controversies camp follower known by the pseudonyms “KentFord9” and “Statistical Mechanic”, have recently been making fools of themselves on the subject of cremation remains, this post may … Continue reading

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Dimensions and structure of the Treblinka cremation facilities

In a previous post I analyzed the limits placed on the Treblinka cremation facilities by the reduced strength of steel at high temperatures. The decisive variable turned out to be the length of the spans. That is, if there is … Continue reading

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