Where would you suggest she turn to for answers to cope with something that was disrupting her life so profoundly?
Red herring. She said it was space aliens. I want proof of those aliens.
When she sought help from traditional sources she encountered only skeptics and dismisal.
So she decided to sell a book to the fringe crowd. (Hint: to appeal to the fringe, always say you were rejected and ridiculed by the mainstream.)
You also assume her collaberation with a psychic as damning without considering the merits?
You assume there is merit to psychics.
Psychic, college professor, redneck or educated. The phenomena is not limited to any group or qualification.
So why did you mislead us and direct us only to the work of the college professor -- the respectable person -- and not the rednecks or charlatans (er, um, psychics).
You simply believe hook-line-and-sinker that all this self-proclaimed hokum is real. Okay, let's say for the sake of argument that there is an external cause. What do a redneck, a college professor, and a psychic all have in common? Might it be most obviously that they are human? Therefore mightn't the result most parsimoniously be attributable to some property of being human? Why must we invent space alien invadors and secret government coverup conspiracies for which there is no evidence? That's as unparsimonious as it can be. Yet that's exactly what she does.
You base the merit of the information on your assesment of me. That isn't science, thats denial pseudoscince.
You told us (twice) that the merit of the information was in the properties of its presenter -- chiefly education. You advocated it in particular to us skeptics on that basis. Then we find you misled us about that basis.
Now, again, I ask you what makes this story -- which you've advocated -- any better than any of the other abductee tales that we might read?
Also I find as sgnificant the beginning premise and conclusion of any scientific study made is the same.
Please stop trying to lecture everyone on how science works. There is absolutely no science in the approach this author has taken.
That the phenomena is growing in scope, profoundly disrupts peoples lives, leads many to believe the government as co-conspiritors, severly modifies peoples belief systems, and disrupts their lives leading many towards stress and psychotic breakdown.
Are all such symptoms being caused by invisible space aliens?
Sorry I disturbed you. Put your head back in the sand. We are being farmed by an entity of such technological superiority that our government is as powerless as its citizens.
Whatever happened to "I'm not making any argument?" See, this is why no one takes you seriously. You try to defuse criticism by saying you're not taking a stand. Then you take a stand. This passive aggression is really getting old. You've used it in every topic you've raised.
Finding something that makes a difference. How is that not science?
If I steal all your money and leave you to starve, I'll have made a difference in your life. But why would that be science?
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