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From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: ufology not a "pseudoscience" -- wake up folks
Message-ID: <34@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 17:49:34 GMT
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> A bibliography does not truth make.
> 
> Has no one ever heard of Occam's Razor?  Statements like (paraphrased)
> "they released lots of UFO documents that were de-classified" (probably
> Air force blue book stuff, classified more or less by default back then)
> "therefor we'll probably soon see the existence of alien bodies on ice
> confirmed" sound an awful lot like believing truth is what one wants it to
> be.  It sounds like you've made up your mind (at least subconciously) that
> UFOs exist, and you're searching desperately for things to back up your
> beliefs (so you can justify them to yourself).  You are a lot less fanatic
> in your suspension of disbelief than most such I have encountered.  You don't
> seem to be saying "well, there are some unexplained things, and a few of those
> might be caused by UFOs, so I'll see what evidence (EITHER way) I can find";
> you are saying "well, the skeptics can't find reasons for everything that
> is unexplained, so they must be wrong, and UFO's/whatever MUST exist, so I'll
> prove it".
> 
> You don't approach investigation from a objective point of view, you go into
> hoping that this time, you'll find proof (and all your toil and trouble will
> not have been wasted).
> 

How does one prove that something does not exist?




















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