Ever the skeptic.
Thank you. I don't play games. My approach to these questions is consistent because I believe it is the right approach and is well-founded in logic, investigative technique, and epistemology. You may expect such consistency in the future. And since you anticipate my questions, please go ahead and provide the information you seem to know I'll ask for.
Knew I could count on you. Could have written your response myself.
You're good at ridiculing answers, but not as good at addressing the reasons behind them.
I called attention to her work because she was a victim with education.
And my education is chopped liver? Unlike she, I have been trained in investigative method. Yet you don't seem to think my education, intelligence, and skill are worth anything that you need to pay attention to. You just write me off as a die-hard skeptic and ignore every reason I give for not buying your hogwash.
You're trying to trump her up as something more than any of dozens of abductees telling their stories on the fringe media circuit.
Not a kook or a psychotic.
Well look at the company she kept and collaborated with.
The phenomena cannot always be attributed to someone with issues.
Nor is there any reason to attribute it to imaginary space invaders, which is what is being done. You forget that part. Not only did she write about her experiences, she wrote about what the aliens are going to do to us. Horror! Makes for a pretty gripping story.
She kept a journal and documented her experience. Was it real or imagined?
Doesn't matter; it's just not science.
If she became a researcher just to write a book, your response would have merit. She became a researcher to understand her own experiance, wrote a book to document what she found.
She wrote several books, including one describing the political and social agenda of the abductors. She became a professional fringe author. I don't see where she "became a researcher" in the sense of acquiring any understanding or expertise in how to investigate what she describes. I see where she quit her job teaching Old English literature at a university, claimed she'd been abducted by aliens, and spent the rest of her life talking about alien abductors.
You don't consider the possibility at all that she's just making it all up to get attention.
Facts are stubborn things. They just keep popping up no matter how much you try to ignore them.
And where might I find these facts?
Even when they cannot be placed into your scientific approach, they still refuse to go away.
You really hate science, don't you. It takes away all your toys.
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