While perusing the Web for crop circle stupidity, spurred by a repeat of a History Channel show from 2001 on the subject, I stumbled upon a site presumptuously called "Genius Forums".

On said forum I found a thread where (presumably) geniuses were discussing Crop Circles. Indeed the discussion was about crop circles, but I saw precious little genius involved.

Here's the URL to the thread, which was closed last year: http://www.theabsolute.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3454&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Apparently there are still people out there who think ANY of the crop circles are something other than human creations.

10 seconds of google searching finds this page, which pretty much debunks any of the "cerealogist" claims of radiation effects, strange plant nodes, etc, ad nauseum.

Here's a quote:

"As I began to make circles myself, l noted that my own mistakes, or unconscious idiosyncracies, were transformed magically by cerealogists into special accomplishments that no human could possibly duplicate. A standing stalk in a circle of felled wheat, missed by my garden roller as a lawnmower might miss a blade of grass, was seen as a cerealogical miracle. A pictogram, fabricated with the aid of several pints of Guinness and a wood-and-rope stalk stomper, was later alleged, with the most sensitive instruments, to be buzzing with radioactivity." -- Jim Schnabel.

So much for serious researchers. Deluded morons is more like it.

Revenant