Monday, August 04, 2008

Nick Redfern and Skeptics throwing in the towel

Kudos to Nick Redfern for a great interview on c2c last night!!! It is always great to hear Nick. It must be because I haven't listened to c2c for more than a few minutes in weeks and I listened to most of the show last night.

In other news this morning:
Michael Horn has put out a new press release -- UFO Skeptics Throw in the Towel - How Did Meier Beat NASA by 32 Years?

That will likely piss a lot of people off who will run around trying to prove that Meier didn't, as though it matters.

There are lots of people that can lay claim to beating NASA on that one, including Richard C. Hoagland. The difference being that none of those people had the actual proof that NASA does. So they didn't beat NASA, they just theorized something that NASA later proved.

UFO Skeptics are throwing in the towel because of that? I don't like to be mean to Michael Horn because there are enough people to do that, but the skeptics throwing in the towel part is utterly ridiculous. The idea of skeptics throwing in the towel for anything less than a ufo landing on them and crushing them to death is unbelievable.

I exaggerated a bit, not all skeptics, some wouldn't actually need to be crushed by a ufo -- however much we might enjoy that. :-)

1 comment:

The Odd Emperor said...

"UFO Skeptics are throwing in the towel because of that? I don't like to be mean to Michael Horn because there are enough people to do that, but the skeptics throwing in the towel part is utterly ridiculous. The idea of skeptics throwing in the towel for anything less than a ufo landing on them and crushing them to death is unbelievable."


I'd settle for one landing near enough to to examine. Then of course I would have evidence to to establish the existence of a landed aircraft, but not necessarily a spaceship from another solar system.

But you point is succinct. Skeptics won't throw in the towel over the Mars-water issue simply because Nasa found evidence of water on Mars, Hoagland and Meier didn't predict anything that Percival Lowell hadn't said over a hundred years earlier. Most people (skeptics too) were pretty sure that water would be found on Mars, it's gratifying that Nasa now has some hard evidence.