-=> Quoting David Bloomberg to Ross Sauer <=-
 
 RS> I'm going to put my cards on the table right now, and say that I have 
 RS> a "show me" attitude towards UFO's.
 DB> 
 DB> Uh oh.  A skeptic.     ;-)
 RS>  
 RS> They do exist, media accounts to the contrary.
 DB> 
 DB> :-)
 
Problem with skeptics is that in comparison to the claimers, we're somewhat
boring. Doesn't make good TV or radio.
 
 RS> In other words, "eyewitness testimony" I won't buy.
 RS> Photos need to be real, and legible. Same with videos.
 DB> 
 DB> How do you know if a photo or video is real?  Just curious.
 RS>  
 RS> I really don't know that for certain at the moment.
 DB> 
 DB> And that is one big problem with using them as evidence. 
 DB> Unfortunately, the  old "I know it when I see it" doesn't cut the
 DB> mustard anymore. 
 
Exactly. It's getting harder and harder to tell a fake photo from a real one.
 
 RS> BTW, I am laughing my head off at the "face on Mars" people like 
 RS> Richard Hoagland, now that he's been PROVEN to be simply full of it.
 DB> 
 DB> But, but, but -- it's a CONSPIRACY, Ross.  How else could it POSSIBLY
 DB> be  explained?  
 RS>  
 RS> That's what Richard Hoagland and his propaganda minister, Art 
 RS> Goebbels,  are saying.
 DB> 
 DB> Of course.  After all, they were shown to be wrong, and that can't
 DB> POSSIBLY be  true, so it MUST be a conspiracy...  (I might point out to
 DB> you that money is  not the _only_ reason people believe in these
 DB> things, and while Hoagland and  Bell certainly make money off of this,
 DB> somebody like your neighbor does not,  and _she_ is still defending it
 DB> as well.) 
 
In her case it's more the "I refuse to admit my screwup."
Like when she had her hat handed to her when she blamed Reagan for John
Deere's losing their ass in the 80's.
She still says that, no matter how often and how badly she was debunked.
And just ask her sometime how she knows that the "alien abductees" are
telling her the truth. (She says she has a "gut feeling" they are.)
Oh yes, and everything and anything the gov't says is a lie, to Ivy.
 
      Ross Sauer    patch@bbs.sts.net    patch@bytehead.com
 
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