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- From: frice@stbbs.com (Fredric L. Rice)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: John Mack, MD on Pacifica Radio!
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:52:21 GMT
- Organization: The Skeptic Tank
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- zylka@buffnet.net wrote:
-
- >morbius@user1.channel1.com (Bellerophon) wrote:
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- >>The fact a single reporter, with minimal preparation IMHO (and no acting
- >>training...) was able to enter the Mack inner circle is testament only to
- >>his worthlessness, and not to any lack of control on the part of skeptics.
-
- >Excuse me, but that's not necessarily so, Bellerophon. I am no
- >"devotee" of John Mack and find his work highly suspect myself, but
- >the fact that a confabulator can dupe him into "believing" her story
- >is not proof of Dr. Mack's incompetency as a psychiatrist researching
- >the abduction phenomenon.
-
- But that's not the primary point. The whole swatting point was that
- Mack employs preconcieved notions which he further implants and builds
- upon -- all predicated upon the unwarranted belief that not only are
- aliens visiting the planet, they're abducting citizens, performing
- medical experiments upon them, and inplanting them with devices.
-
- That _does_ show that he's incompetent as someone who is entrusted
- with actually _helping_ someone get over their false perceptions.
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