| Media Skeptics (or pseudoskeptics as we call them) | | | | involvement with UFO's and ET technology, and the |
| are fond of saying, "There's no evidence for any | | | | cover ups and secrecy surrounding it. (See a video of |
| paranormal or psychic phenomena" no matter how | | | | their testimonies at a public conference here) |
| much evidence is shown to them, even if it's a | | | | Now, that's certainly NOT "zero evidence"! |
| mountainful. They always find excuses to deny or | | | | Nevertheless, pseudoskeptics who claim to only want |
| dismiss the evidence, even in the most unreasonable | | | | evidence continue to declare that "there is no |
| and irrational manner, then go back to repeating this | | | | evidence" when they get plenty of it from credible |
| claim as though it were a religious Gospel Law that | | | | sources. Obviously, they are in a state of perpetual |
| could never be overturned. This is extremely | | | | denial and cognitive dissonance. They deny and filter |
| aggravating because it's like trying to reason with | | | | out anything that doesn't fit into their materialistic |
| someone who chooses to be blind and ignorant, and in | | | | reductionistic view of reality, especially anything that |
| total denial of facts and reality. | | | | has to do with paranormal or conspiracies, no matter |
| But the reality is that for some popular paranormal | | | | what evidence is presented, even if its documented |
| phenomena such as ESP or ghosts, there is plenty of | | | | and scientific. One thing they are they not open to is |
| long standing evidence of several types - anecdotal, | | | | possibilities. Any possibility that challenges the views of |
| experiential and scientific. Controlled scientific | | | | the establishment is simply not possible to them, even if |
| experiments have yielded positive results for ESP for | | | | the claims of the establishment itself are not scientific |
| many years. From the 1940's with JB Rhine, to the | | | | or contradicted by facts. It doesn't even have to be |
| current day with Dr. Charles Tart, Dr. Gary Schwartz, | | | | paranormal, it can be ANYTHING that opposes the |
| Rupert Sheldrake, and many other scientists, positive | | | | official version of events, including conspiracies and lies |
| and consistent results for psi have been found to exist | | | | by corrupt government officials or even the existence |
| far above chance under controlled conditions. And | | | | of shadow governments (which were acknowledged |
| series of psi experiments that have been repeated for | | | | to exist in the 80's with the Iran Contra Scandal). Thus, |
| years known as The Ganzfeld Experiments, | | | | their bias and blind faith in authority as dogma is |
| Autoganzfeld Experiments and PEAR (Princeton | | | | revealed. |
| Engineering Anomalies Research) have yielded | | | | Even if a highly credible source with a long history of |
| statistically significant and consistent results above | | | | accuracy suddenly makes a paranormal claim or a |
| chance as well. | | | | claim against an established view, they automatically |
| In addition, the anecdotal and experiential evidence is | | | | dismiss it as bunk before even looking into it. If they do |
| overwhelming. Studies show that at least half the | | | | look into it, it will not be to learn the truth about it, but to |
| population of the world has had paranormal | | | | debunk it. They will even deny evidence from scientific |
| experiences, and according to the National Science | | | | experiments as well. All the while, they tout, "Show me |
| Foundation, "60% of American either AGREE or | | | | the evidence. Where's the evidence?" Yet when they |
| STRONGLY AGREE that some people either | | | | are shown the evidence, they merely dismiss it or |
| possess psychic abilities or extrasensory perception". | | | | ignore it, acting as though they heard nothing, then go |
| That's A LOT, no doubt. Common sense would tell you | | | | back to repeating that there's no evidence. I've seen |
| that if half the people in the world have experienced | | | | them do this for years, in the media, on websites, in |
| something, then it's pretty much certain that there's | | | | forum discussions, and on my own mailing list. It's as |
| something to it other than fraud, misperception and | | | | though they were deaf and totally belief oriented, |
| fantasy, especially since a good number of these | | | | seeing only what they want to see. |
| experiencers include credible down-to-earth people as | | | | The problem for pseudoskeptics is that their denial and |
| well. Likewise, large percentage of people of all types | | | | cognitive dissonance does NOT erase the evidence |
| from all walks of life have experienced ghosts too. | | | | from reality. It may erase it from their own minds, but it |
| So you see, the evidence for such common | | | | does not the erase the evidence itself. Thus, it can be |
| paranormal phenomena is huge. As Parapsychologist | | | | said that they are deluded and do not face up to |
| Author Dean Radin has said, the evidence for psi is so | | | | reality. |
| solid and robust that if the same quality of evidence | | | | Some examples of pseudoskeptics' denial of evidence |
| existed for something non-paranormal, it would | | | | and cognitive dissonance: |
| definitely have been accepted as proven. But because | | | | * If a psychic or medium gets an amazing hit, either |
| the paranormal is considered taboo in the scientific | | | | something highly unusual and specific that doesn't apply |
| establishment, there is a sort of censorship and | | | | to everyone or a deep dark secret about you that no |
| knowledge filtration toward it. There is an automatic | | | | one knows, which could NOT have been due to cold |
| negative stigma and bias toward it that assumes that | | | | reading or guessing, then it means nothing to the |
| only crackpots believe in such things. So any scientist | | | | pseudoskeptics, who will say that it must have been a |
| who openly supports the legitimacy of paranormal | | | | lucky guess, or due to fraud or your own faulty |
| phenomena seriously jeopardizes their career and | | | | memory, because no one has psychic abilities. |
| image among their colleagues. Thus, most scientists | | | | * If witnesses experiences a ghost, they must have |
| who believe in some paranormal phenomena will not | | | | been hallucinating, have an active imagination, or lying. |
| declare it publicly, but become close enthusiasts. Mr. | | | | Ghosts don't exist, so it must have been something |
| Radin discovered this, as many scientists confided in | | | | else. |
| him their secret unofficial interest and belief that some | | | | * If people see UFO's, including trained Air Force Pilots |
| of the paranormal is real. | | | | and Astronauts, then they must have misidentified |
| Even in regard to UFO's, there is plenty of evidence | | | | natural phenomenon, because alien ships don't exist, at |
| for them of several types. UFO photos and videos are | | | | least not near Earth. And this is so even if radar picked |
| controversial and vague of course, but many credible | | | | up objects performing maneuvers impossible for |
| eyewitnesses, including Air Force Pilots and | | | | man-made aircraft. |
| Astronauts, have seen them. They've also been | | | | * If psychic abilities are demonstrated under controlled |
| tracked on radar doing aerial maneuvers that | | | | conditions (e.g. PEAR, Ganzfeld, SRI), then there must |
| man-made aircraft could not do. (And as you know, | | | | have been flaws in the protocols or lack of controls, |
| hallucinations do not appear on radar.) In one famous | | | | because psychic abilities are not possible. |
| official incident known as the Washington Merry Go | | | | Pseudo-skeptics then demand repeatability and peer |
| Round Incident of 1952, jet fighters were scrambled to | | | | review. But when they get that, they then ask for |
| intercept UFO's after they had been tracked on radar. | | | | more repeatability, from skeptical scientists as well. |
| Afterward, to quell public panic, the incident was quickly | | | | The bar is continually raised until a skeptical scientist |
| dismissed though never fully explained. Nevertheless, | | | | finds or imagines any flaw in the experiments and |
| something significant happened to trigger the alarm and | | | | declares them debunked. Only then are they satisfied. |
| scrambling of fighters, and it wasn't "zero evidence" for | | | | Clearly, they only want a particular result (only chance |
| sure. But if you think that UFO evidence is strictly | | | | results), not the truth. If it doesn't get debunked, then |
| confined to obscure sightings, think again. The famous | | | | they accuse the experimentors of improper controls or |
| Bentwaters UFO Incident that occurred on an | | | | deceit, as Randi is infamous for doing. |
| American military base in England in 1980 involving two | | | | * They claim that no psi study that shows positive |
| dozen military witnesses, including Colonel Halt, of an | | | | results has ever been published in credible scientific |
| up-close UFO sighting, remains an undebunked and | | | | journals. Yet when they are shown citations that they |
| compelling case. And after years of extensive | | | | have, they simply become deaf and ignore them. Then |
| investigations and interviews with Alien Abductees by | | | | they have the nerve to simply repeat their lie again, as |
| Budd Hopkins and John Mack, who wrote books on | | | | if they never even heard you! This is very infuriating |
| the phenomenon, they concluded that there was more | | | | and dishonest |
| to the abduction experience than mere hallucination or | | | | * If a resuscitated patient has an NDE or OBE where |
| sleep paralysis. In addition, public coalitions such as The | | | | he/she sees details that they could not have known |
| Disclosure Project have brought forth a large pool of | | | | about, then it must have been lucky guesses or |
| high ranking government, military and intelligence | | | | unconscious memories, because there is no soul that |
| officials and insiders, over 400 currently, who have | | | | can leave the body.. |
| confessed to personal knowledge of government | | | | |