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  1. From: frice@stbbs.com (Fredric L. Rice)
  2. Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,alt.paranet.science
  3. Subject: Re: Are all believers crackpots?
  4. Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:47:40 GMT
  5. Organization: The Skeptic Tank
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  14. Brian Zeiler <bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu> wrote:
  15.  
  16. >Michael Edelman wrote:
  17. >> So they invent their own little mythologies to be experts on, and
  18. >> that's as far as they can see.
  19.  
  20. >HA!  Is that any different from YOU inventing YOUR own "little 
  21. >mythology" that BBSR #14 was from a "saucer fan publication"?
  22.  
  23. I wouldn't doubt it for an instant, yes.  It's easilly demonstrated
  24. that concocting elaborate mysteries so that a believer can then
  25. pronounce himself an expert is a common theme among must-believers.
  26. A good example are believers who visit "crop circles" and pretend 
  27. to be able to spot a "genuine" crop circle from a hoax -- and yet
  28. they're demonstrated to only be able to do so ___AFTER___ someone
  29. steps forward and admits they created it.
  30.  
  31. Funny, huh?
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