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Article #316Re: "Abductions" DO NOT exist :scientists should fight this crap,like Carl Sagan did
From: twitchb
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:00
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"Etherman" <etherman@mdc.net> wrote: <snip> >You're reading into it more than I intended. My point (which >I thought was obvious) was that just because witnesses give >contradictory accounts doesn't mean that the event, as a whole, >never happened. I fail to see how disagreement among witnesses >is "good evidence" that the event never happened. Well, since we are usually told that the complete agreement among their stories is strong evidence that it did happen, that is what I was showing was an incorrect statement. And, contradictory accounts don't mean the event happened either. <snip> >> >>As is the evidence for fairies and witches. > > >I've known several witches. So yeah, they do exist. The city of >Salem MA has an official witch. > <snip> Ah, but the reports say that the witches ride broomsticks, make cows dry up, bring on disease, etc. That is what the eyewitnesses said! I will pass up the obvious and not ask how many fairies the town of Salem has. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b271,a4646fb62e4d92ad X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: f98ed,a4646fb62e4d92ad X-Google-Attributes: gidf98ed,public X-Google-Thread: f6998,a4646fb62e4d92ad X-Google-Attributes: gidf6998,public X-Google-Thread: f989f,a4646fb62e4d92ad X-Google-Attributes: gidf989f,public X-Google-Thread: 1107a8,127afb9bb3c99127 X-Google-Attributes: gid1107a8,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,a4646fb62e4d92ad X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: f4268,a4646fb62e4d92ad X-Google-Attributes: gidf4268,public X-Google-Thread: 10384c,a4646fb62e4d92ad X-Google-Attributes: gid10384c,public From: twitchb@worldnet.att.net Subject: Re: "Abductions" DO NOT exist :scientists should fight this crap,like Carl Sagan did Date: 1998/04/30 Message-ID: <6iaofc$1q8@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> X-Deja-AN: 349235424 References: <3529458e.2038317@news.twics.com> <chkcorea-0604981825370001@dyn083a.px3-ri.ids.net> <3528F592.896@micron.net> <j20tJGABrzN1EwSa@prioryv.demon.co.uk> <3537B583.2390@REMOVE_TO_EMAIL.jhuapl.edu> <3539cf46.4878518@news.twics.com> <353AC79F.62B6@REMOVE_TO_EMAIL.jhuapl.edu> <353bdd73.0@news.netway.com> <35412108.15460428@news.demon.co.uk> <353fb853.0@news.netway.com> <6hqtfm$j3c@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <3543736d.0@news.netway.com> <6i2d1m$rvd@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <354785ca.0@news.netway.com> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Newsgroups: alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,bionet.neuroscience,alt.dreams,alt.dreams.lucid,sci.physics,sci.psychology.psychotherapy