Skeptical bastards!
I try to keep an open and civil mind when it comes to UFOs.
After all, the topic is hamstrung by all the nuts who engage
in it.
But this gets my goat (as we used to say)…
Gilles Fernandez provides a magnificent, if fraudulent, assessment
of the 1896 Airship Wave about which I point out some egregious errors and some
malapropos psychology.
Asking skeptics to weigh in, in my previous post here, only
brought some forgiving and senseless support for Gilles’ endeavor.
When David Rudiak provides like-kind commentary at Kevin
Randle’s blog, Lance Moody and CDA are all over him like stink on a monkey.
But here, Lance Moody is a no-show and CDA strokes Gilles’
with sycophantic encomium.
Tim Printy adds a soporific note, as he also likes skepticism
that is rife with error and misused psychological argot.
I applaud Gilles’ effort. It is a piece of splendid
propaganda.
Even The Anomalist found it here and noted its skeptical
salience.
But no one has taken a stab at correcting Gilles’ illogic
and many errors, which I attempted to do with the posting below this one.
Skeptics circle the wagons when one of their own is under
attack, and truth is set aside for a kind of irrational bonhomie.
It’s shameful skepticism and while I’m more agnostic that
skeptical about UFOs, I find the reticence to correct or condemn nonsense, like
that in Gilles’ piece, to be a flaw that encapsulates the UFO matter, and makes
it even dicier than it intrinsically is.
So, Mr. Printy, CDA, and no-show Lance, I’m embarrassed for
you guys.
You’ve shown your true colors and they aren’t prism-clean.
RR
