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  2. From: billp@io.com (Bill Peterson)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Dr. Paul Hill's repulsive force field
  5. Date: 21 Jun 1996 08:33:14 -0500
  6. Organization: Illuminati Online
  7. Lines: 17
  8. Message-ID: <4qe8aq$fov@bermuda.io.com>
  9. References: <31B24188.2488@students.wisc.edu> <4pkl88$bon@agate.berkeley.edu> <4pl2f0$jhf@pentagon.io.com> <4q6m6r$cbn@thorn.cc.usm.edu>
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  12.  
  13. In article <4q6m6r$cbn@thorn.cc.usm.edu>,
  14. Lawrence R. Mead <lrmead@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote:
  15. >
  16. >Principle number one of science: "Extroardinary claims require
  17. >extroardinary evidence". No "skeptic" will accept such flimsy, ephemeral,
  18. >non-numerical, indeed non-physical, word-of-mouth "evidence" that any
  19. >UFO-ologist offers for the (at the very least) earth-shattering news that an
  20. >extraterrestrial craft has visited! 
  21. >
  22.  
  23. This is what I don't understand. Why do we really care if skeptics
  24. accept it or not?
  25.  
  26. BP
  27.  
  28. -- 
  29. Disclaimer: I only speak for myself, and sometimes I wish I hadn't!
  30.