Deluded management of the BCN forum have lately attached some kind of copyright rider to every post.  This is because their paranoid Guru thinks everyone who posts some opinion or idea is ripping him off.  Participants in this BCN forum need to understand that this insecure Guru thinks he's the only person qualified to talk intelligently about beads.  Lately, this Guru accused some decent participants in so-called "bead research" of ripping off his photos and "ideas".  As it turned out, the photos came from a completely different source, but who would think the Guru would ever fess up?

Lacking education or experience in the academic world, this Guru thinks any "idea" is his own and should be protected.  The fact is, this Guru gets his "ideas" from observing beads, just like anyone else, and although he pretends to do research, he doesn't.  His "ideas" are either derived from earlier writings (and most of the time, the sources are not referenced) or they are pure obvious common sense.  He also invents terminology as he goes along, and when people don't use the terminology or use it incorrectly, they are automatically "wrong".

Check it out!  What's going on at BCN these days is pathetic self-delusion.  They will kill their own forum because they stifle debate.  We can't tell you how often we sit around laughing at the pompous, over-wrought, irrelevant crap being put forth by the Guru and how sycophants keep tonguing up to him.  It's convenient to blame Mountain Men and Gambians for misinformation, but do you hobbyists realize how much crap is being put forth by this Guru who insists he's some kind of bead linguist/historian?