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5.6.8 : Skepticism or Debunkery?
Skepticism: Doctrine that a certainty of knowledge cannot be attained.
I started thinking about this after participating in the thread "unwarranted skepticism" at BoA's usofe forum.
It seemed obvious to me that the person who started the thread actually was referring to debunkers and not true skeptics. To others, that was not obvious and that is what caused some confusion. There is a good reason for the confusion: debunkers do not refer to themselves as such, but rather as skeptics.
They are not skeptics, but they do confuse people by pretending to be.
This is not a Tooth I've always been extremely fascinated by examples of photographic oddities of all kind; everything from Victorian mortuary photography to Ted-Serios-style thoughtographs. I might even say it's the photography centered phenomena that strike me as the most compelling—at least in the sense that they seem to be the stories that have haunted me, stayed with me. ... Within the highly controversial esoteric health modality called radiesthesia (or, radionics) there are very intriguing and mysterious photographic images. In the mid 1930s, chiropractor Dr. Ruth Drown allegedly produced X-ray/CAT scan-style images of various anatomical structures—organs, tissues, etc.--using a camera-like device of her own creation (the rather hilariously named "Homo Vibra Ray") based upon the assumptions of radionics, that is, universal energy fields, vibrations, etc.
In this edition of Richard's Room 101 we are going discuss one of the strangest conspiracy theories I have ever heard of, but still think is somewhat credible and at least half believable. The conspiracy theory is that the CIA have used (and are maybe still using) brainwashing techniques to create "Manchurian candidates". |
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I’m on a lot of paranormal New Age and UFO junk mail lists and I receive all kinds of catalogs about those topics. The other day I received something called the Avatar Journal. It’s all in color, printed on slick paper. Not a cheap job like some of them are. Very glossy and professional. Avatar promises to fix your life. They’re international, with Avatars and Wizards all over the United States (only one in Oregon, plenty in California) Australia, Europe. Avatar seems to be a blend of New Age and business/corporate stuff. The "Journal" talks a lot about compassion and going green. Their main point is to "build a new self." As I stated in last week's column, I was totally prepared to follow this latest Phoenix Lights Redux story through whatever twists and turns of government disinformation and cover-up shenanigans might have developed. As it turns out, the one thing I wasn't prepared for was how quickly it would be revealed as a hoax.
No corny government explanations, no additional footage, and no linkage to hyperdimensional physics...heck, there wasn't even enough time for any of the go-to skeptics and believers to come out in support or against it. Shame on you, Mr. Hoaxer. You are a sick, lonely man-child that nobody could possibly love.
What drives someone to perpetrate a hoax such as this? And what kind of effect will it have on the field of Ufology? Let's dig in...
Two days ago I got a call from an old friend. We used to call him "Inspector Gadget," because could build something out of nothing; robots out of pop-sickle sticks and batteries; cars out of chairs and roller skates. But his coolest creation was a night light he believed would eradicate evil. Yes, you heard me right: A weapon against monsters.
So when I received this call, so many years later, the first thing I said was, "Where's my monster-eating night light?" To which his answer was, "A monster broke it."
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