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   "Sir Arthur CB Wholeflaffers ASA"    
   wrote in message   
   news:4f70a50a-a174-40a3-86eb-9f71315dc144@j19g2000pro.googlegroups.com...   
   > Brian Zeiler, You're Doing A Great Service/ UFO   
   > Debunkers in Massive   
   > Retreat.   
   >   
   > Brian Zeiler, You're Doing A Great Service/ UFO   
   > Debunkers in Retreat.   
   >   
   > Brian, Let me extend a hearty thank-you from myself   
   > and from all the   
   > honest   
   > UFO researchers in your efforts to document and   
   > illuminate the well   
   > proven facts. The UFO community would also like to   
   > extend our   
   > gratitude for the work you have done in bringing new   
   > ideas and solid   
   > information to light. We are in your debt. Also, I   
   > would like to   
   > encourage you to keep up your investigations, for   
   > they are highly   
   > educational and written in a scholarly manner.   
   >   
   > Please don't be put off by those luckless charlatans   
   > posing as UFO   
   > debunkers.   
   > At best, we can say these impostors are ignorant   
   > dupes and fools,   
   > "useless idiots" if you will, at worst, they are   
   > intelligence   
   > community,   
   > low-level assets who can't make it in the real world.   
   > It is a pity they spend so much effort in the   
   > distortion and   
   > vandalism of good science. May history view them in   
   > higher regard   
   > than I do,   
   > they'll need it.   
   >   
   > The President himself has called debunkers "useless   
   > eaters" and "life   
   > unworthy of life." Truer words have never been   
   > spoken. :)   
   >   
   > From time to time, it is important for all of us to   
   > let you know the   
   > outstanding contributions you are making in the field   
   > and what a   
   > delight and   
   > inspiration it is to have you around. With your   
   > valuable assistance,   
   > I'm sure "our" side will win. The truth always does!   
   >   
   > Again, let me declare your efforts were remarkable in   
   > digging up the   
   > Ames and Sandia connections. That was impressive,   
   > and, of course,   
   > highly indicative of the lengths 'they' are going to   
   > in trying to   
   > control and   
   > cover-up the ET/Alien information. Bravo!   
   >   
   > BRIAN ZEILER RESPONDS:   
   >   
   >   
   > Brian Zeiler wrote on Oct.   
   > 19, 1996:   
   > Art Wholeflaffer wrote:   
   >   
   >> Brian, Let me extend a hearty thank-you from myself   
   >> and from all the honest   
   >> UFO researchers in your efforts to document and   
   >> illuminate the well   
   >> proven facts.   
   >   
   > You're welcome, and thank you. And let's also not   
   > forget that I am   
   > too prone to   
   > getting suckered into flame wars with the self-styled   
   > "skeptics", and   
   > this noise   
   > tends to overshadow the very high quality posts from   
   > David Rudiak, J.   
   > Walter,   
   > Bill Peterson, and a few others whose contributions   
   > are appreciated.   
   >   
   >> Please don't be put off by those luckless charlatans   
   >> posing as UFO debunkers.   
   >> At best, we can say these impostors are ignorant   
   >> dupes and fools,   
   >> useless "idiots" if you will, at worst, they are   
   >> intelligence community,   
   >> low-level assets who can't make it in the real   
   >> world.   
   >   
   > Sadly, the vast majority appear to be all too   
   > sincere. Rogers, Fun,   
   > McKnight   
   > (where's he been?), etc., are nothing more than   
   > typical dime-a-dozen   
   > skeptics who   
   > lease their opinions from their masters and overlords   
   > at CSICOP in a   
   > rather   
   > repugnant display of intellectual incompetence and   
   > lack of capacity   
   > for   
   > independent reasoning. Of course, that's due in no   
   > small part to the   
   > intellectual prostitution of Menzel and Sagan and   
   > other opinion   
   > leaders who duped   
   > generations of scientists into absorbing a culture of   
   > UFO ridicule and   
   > rejection   
   > with absolutely no logical basis whatsoever --   
   > nothing but silly   
   > debunkeries that   
   > invariably collapse under scrutiny along with an   
   > idiot mantra about   
   > "extraordinariness" which presumes the inductive   
   > powers of probability   
   > estimation   
   > in the midst of insufficient data.   
   >   
   > It's absolutely staggering to see scientific   
   > leadership deteriorate to   
   > such a   
   > level of stagnancy and ambivalence in research   
   > effort, coupled with a   
   > total lack   
   > of exposure to the evidence *and* a blinding,   
   > foaming, raging need to   
   > disbelieve   
   > and debunk with the urgent zeal of a fanatical   
   > religious nut. That's   
   > the   
   > scientific treatment of the UFO evidence, all spawned   
   > by their blind   
   > devotion to   
   > their overlords and masters like Sagan and Menzel.   
   > Truly   
   > unbelievable.   
   >   
   >> It is a pity they spend so much effort in the   
   >> distortion and vandalism of good science. May   
   >> history view   
   >> them in higher regard than I do, they'll need it.   
   >   
   > History will view them as fools -- relentless   
   > defenders of dogma,   
   > blind fools who   
   > crippled scientific progress in the name of,   
   > ironically, "science",   
   > which they   
   > fallaciously equate with skepticism, their   
   > need-to-disbelieve   
   > religion. History   
   > will show that they undermined that which they sought   
   > to defend --   
   > good science.   
   >   
   > It's truly sad to see human progress and potential   
   > reflected so feebly   
   > and   
   > pathetically in the scientific community's willful   
   > blindness to this   
   > discovery,   
   > especially in this age of such revolutionary   
   > technological progress.   
   > The failure   
   > of science in this aspect -- arguably the biggest   
   > aspect, the greatest   
   > discovery of all time -- will long be remembered as   
   > the pox on a   
   > century   
   > otherwise full of conquest and glory, the grandest   
   > 100 years of   
   > science that ever   
   > happened.   
   >   
   > The US government will release the goods, but   
   > probably not for a long   
   > time. When   
   > they do, the world will instantly view the "UFO   
   > skeptics" as a group   
   > of   
   > irrational zealots who, rather unfortunately,   
   > happened to be in   
   > positions of   
   > public influence.   
   >   
   > In the meantime, all we can do is observe the UFO   
   > skeptics and, with a   
   > necessary   
   > sense of humor that enables us to laugh raucously at   
   > their silly   
   > logic, watch   
   > them struggle to deny, disbelieve, and debunk. Hey,   
   > that'll be the   
   > three D's of   
   > modern science's treatment of the UFO evidence...   
   >   
   > --   
   > Brian Zeiler   
      
   I thought you knew. Brian Zeiler was arrested in Hong   
   Kong years ago and apparently perished in jail.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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