The one thing that bothers me...

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podrock — 1/18/2008 5:47:42 PM (archived)

..is that the retraction / correction pretty much blames the readers of the article for believing the signals were ET, which is rather insulting to the reader. Never seen a retraction like that before. The piece was poorly written, period.

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Has E.T. Made A Call? - Socrates II - 1/16/2008 8:24:13 PM
- post with misleading authorship removed - moderite podrock - 1/18/2008 5:08:12 PM
- re: Has E.T. Made A Call? - James Brown - 1/18/2008 5:59:11 AM
  - But he is the Science Editor - Socrates II - 1/18/2008 1:43:22 PM
    - I'd cut him a break - TB - 1/18/2008 5:27:12 PM
      - The one thing that bothers me... - podrock - 1/18/2008 5:47:42 PM
        
        I'll grant you that. (n/t) - TB - 1/18/2008 6:42:31 PM
        
        The Bad Astronomer caught that too - Socrates II - 1/18/2008 7:44:01 PM
        
        pulling a channel 2 - podrock - 1/18/2008 8:04:20 PM
        
        Makes one wonder... - Socrates II - 1/18/2008 8:08:46 PM
- Nothing to it. - TB - 1/16/2008 11:05:20 PM
  - "the story you are trying to view is no longer available through this website" - podrock - 1/16/2008 11:36:28 PM
    - And replaced by a correction. - podrock - 1/17/2008 2:41:14 AM
- paging Mr Brown...Mr J. Brown.... - podrock - 1/16/2008 8:50:44 PM
  - assumptions - DJL - 1/16/2008 9:00:30 PM
    - Just as long as they don't come here and eat us. - 51 - 1/16/2008 10:30:55 PM
    - suspicions - podrock - 1/16/2008 9:49:44 PM
      - suspicions are what drove people to the biggest discoveries (n/t) - DJL - 1/16/2008 10:05:06 PM
        
        But discoveries are facts. - podrock - 1/16/2008 10:28:06 PM
        
        where (n/t) - too many voices in my head - 1/16/2008 10:10:00 PM
- sorry, wrong number... (n/t) - DJL - 1/16/2008 8:45:19 PM
  - As suspected, the mainstream new media shows its science ignorance once again - Socrates II - 1/17/2008 12:00:08 AM
    - A strange but natural radio source is where this all started - Socrates II - 1/17/2008 4:51:54 PM
      - Look what KTVU is reporting now - Socrates II - 1/17/2008 8:14:04 PM

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