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Hank — (archived)

The theory of relativity gives a detailed set of answers to questions that anyone can go into his own laboratory and question and answer for himself. It is publicly verifiable and if it is incorrect in some detail someone can set up an experiment to show that, and others are free to do the same thing to see for themselves. In fact, we may find in the future that relativity has a flaw in, or can be replaced by a better theory, but that issue will be decided publicly in a laboratory, and then verified independently in many other laboratories. That's science.

The post that opened this thread's only evidence is this guy's website, with no way for anyone else to check the story for himself because it happened years ago in Northern California. Another poster already demonstrated here how easily the photographic evidence can be faked, so that's worthless. I have to take his word for it, and there are already enough inconsistencies in his story that I don't trust it or him. Could it possibly be true? Maybe, but I have no way of knowing that and I have no obligation to give him the benefit of a doubt until he gives me the means to check up on him. In fact, even if his story were true, there is no experiment or observation I can perform to check up on it, all I have is his word, which is at worst, an outright fraud, or at best, some weird ecotopian performance art. That's bullshit.

As for your elaborate Wikipedian definition, that's bullshit too. "Pseudo" means "false" or "sham". Pseudoscience means false science, pseudopod means false foot, pseudonym means false name. Pseudoskeptic means false skeptic, or someone who pretends to be skeptical, not someone who is excessively skeptical. Look it up in the dictionary before you go to Wiki. Wikipedia is written by aliens--and you can't disprove that!

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