Well, you should listen to the technician then who observed this ufo over O'Hare Airport. He was taxi-ing a plane during the sighting. I wouldn't consider him an unqualified witness. Pilots, scientists, presidents, doctors, clergymen all have had sightings. I'd like to know who you think DOES "qualify" in your book? And as for "unverified", what about multiple witness cases? Obviously, you haven't been doing your homework.
This is where your pithy assertions fall flat on their face "Witnesses are either ignorant or frauds".....well, I'd like for you to walk into a room full of witnesses with that assertion and see how big THAT goes over.
>"The reason the scientific community refuses to collaborate with your "research" is simple: half of you can't be trusted to tell the truth, and the rest of you can't recognize it when it's staring you in the face."
Well, wrong again BOZO. MANY scientists are involved in the research worldwide, and they all share notes. They are not as close-minded, nor as negative as you. I'll bet you've never been to a presentation where experts are giving you their best information. And I'd certainly like to see you tell them some of your insulting quips face-to-face.
>"The whole anomalist program...is so fraught with fuzzy logic, wishful thinking, and a pathetic need to believe that our salvation somehow resides just outside our grasp...."
You went ahead and lumped other subjects in your diatribe, but how come you didn't add your mother to the mix? It's people like YOU who need a paradigm shift. Too bad you haven't seen one yet.
It's people like you who NEED to encounter one and then try and be believed. Here's hoping it happens real soon.
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"The evidence we do have of UFOs is all unverifiable, from unqualified witnesses"
The whole thread (109 posts)
- Symptoms of Pathological Skepticism.
- re: Symptoms of Pathological Behaviour (n/t)
- Just for the record:
- No...
- In Defense of Pathological Skepticism.
- That's not "pathological" skepticism
- Hoagland, the one thing you can't say about him is that he doesn't Believe.
- "Semantic"?
- 'Argument by dictonary definition' isn't an argument
- "And there, bunkie, I got ya: My definition of "lie" can be found in a dictionary. Where in the universe did you get yours?"..... Does the Mirriam-Webster dictionary count? You will, of course apolog…
- Yes, Damn it....
- "Semantic"?
- On the other hand...
- Hoagland, the one thing you can't say about him is that he doesn't Believe.
- re: Perhaps you are not a PATHOLOGICAL skeptic.
- Easter has been cancelled this year. They found the body.
- re: Perhaps I was wrong.
- No, I don't concede that.
- re: "Do you concede that UFO's don't necessarily violate any known physical laws?"
- re: Perhaps I was wrong.
- Easter has been cancelled this year. They found the body.
- That's not "pathological" skepticism
- The burden of proof is, as it has always been, on the most extraordinary claims. (n/t)
