2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/15139A summary of recent Large Magellanic Cloud distance determinations mu(LMC) is presented, with an eye towards pinpointing the source(s) of the resulting large discrepancies encountered between some of the techniques. Thirty-eight recent (1998-1999) measurements of mu(LMC) are highlighted, the extrema for which (18.07 versus 18.74) are inconsistent with one another at the 3-sigma level. The lack of overlap between the results of many of the techniques, simply employing the authors' quoted uncertainties, is a clear indication that unrecognized uncertainties, both random and systematic, plague many of the published results. While mu(LMC) almost certainly lies within 13% of 18.5 (i.e., between 18.20 and 18.75), to those of us outside the LMC ``community'', no single compelling argument has been put forth that reconciles the wildly disparate values presented thus far. A 13% uncertainty in the LMC distance corresponds to a 13% uncertainty in the Cepheid-based extragalactic distance scale.8 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, requires memsait.sty, also available at http://casa.colorado.edu/~bgibson/publications.html, to appear in Mem. Soc. Astron. Italiana (MemSAI). Corrected two typos and bizarre run-on tt font near end of paperAstrophysicstext