In my rounds about the internets today I was disappointed and upset with some attacks on Rich Dolan that I saw. Mostly limited to internet forums, which are already a hotbed of hate and attacks.
Really? Is this what things are coming to? To the point where people can't even admit that they are looking into different ideas and theories without fear of being attacked?
OK, I realize things have been at that point for a while. However, when someone like Rich Dolan is attacked for such things -- I can't even imagine the effect that must have on witnesses of UFOs and other strangeness that are already afraid to come forward.
So I guess that is it, we are not even allowed to investigate ideas outside the mainstream without fear of attack from the Ufology police. Not that it will stop me, but it is still totally ridiculous.
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I think that Rich Dolan as a high profile public figure, is more than capable of discerning what is compelling and what is not, and the issue I sense that with his mixing empirical research and channeled theories is that the two are intertwined by his actions, and despite his understandable and retroactive attempt to separate the two, (which is an irony in of itself) skeptics paint with a broad brush, and so outside of himself and his interests, this "mixed signal" is one that is pervasive throughout this field, which, in turn gives the skeptic fuel for the fire. All of this then is seen in the forum of opinion in terms of credibility.
I think he recognizes this situation himself as he says at the end of his qualifying statement..despite this..my new book is credible or empirical or something to that effect...In the same vein of duality, while I do think this situation has muddied the already muddy relativistic focus of attention, I am sure it hasn't changed anything in the field beyond how he is perceived, which is entirely his own choice as far as his exposure is concerned. At the end of the day, its just more evidence that in the study of this phenomenon, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
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