Richard Hoagland Press Conference Update

I haven't seen a thing on the Hoagland press conference as of yet.

My guess is that this is because it was little more than some free publicity for his latest book, complete with grainy photos. I could be wrong, and I do actually hope that I am, but something tells me he didn't exactly deliver with rock solid proof of his claims yesterday.

If anyone's heard anything more on this story, though, I'd be interested to hear it.

Richard Hoagland Press Conference

Today I was sent an e-mail by a friend of mine with details of the press conference Richard Hoagland is hosting at the National Press Club next week.

I'm actually curious to see what comes out of this even though I'm cautious with anything Hoagland does these days. At times I've thought that he's put out some interesting info, and made some nice connections. Other times, particularly more recently, I feel like he has no problem stretching(or possibly even more than that) a story to make it more sensational and to claim more headlines.

As I've said before, much of that seems to be human nature. Once people get headlines, sometimes they feel like they have to go bigger and more wild to keep getting headlines. I think that has happened to quite a few people who are at heart decent researchers over the years, and maybe that's part of why I'm wary of any claim Hoagland makes these days.

In the end, call me cautiously optimistic that something interesting comes out next week. If he's got legitimate proof of more happening on the moon than is known, then it's certainly going to be worthwhile. If he throws out a bunch of speculation that's light on the proof and big on attempts to grab headlines, then it's probably going to do more harm than good.