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- From: ka@socrates.hr.att.com (Kenneth Almquist)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Kevin Randle (was Re: John Mack, MD on Pacifica Radio!)
- Date: 22 Jun 1996 02:21:01 GMT
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- Bob Tarantino writes:
- > Last year, Kevin Randle in a interview with Larry King stated that he
- > believed 95% of Cattle mutilations are preditor kills. This was almost
- > certainly a lie. And why? Because Skeptics prey on the the more bizzare
- > stories to discredit UFO activists and researchers. Kevin Randle (a formost
- > authority on the Roswell Case) is so certain that the evidence shows that
- > there was a crash at Roswell that it is his only concern, and that admitting
- > to the reality of cattle mutilations would invite skeptics to damage his
- > credibility, which is their only purpose.
-
- In other words, one of the foremost authorities on the Roswell case
- tells a lie, and you blame the skeptics? Wow.
-
- I'm not familiar with the Larry King interview, so I have no opinion
- on whether Keven Randle lied in that interview. However, in _UFO
- Crash at Roswell_, by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, we read,
-
- "Years later when President Truman read a speech about the Soviet
- development of atomic weapons, it was Marcel who had provided the
- text."
-
- This was presumably included because it adds to the credibility of
- Jesse Marcel.
-
- After it was pointed out that Truman *didn't* read a speech about the
- Soviet development of atomic weapons (the White House issued a press
- release), _The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell_ comes out, with
- *no* mention of Marcel's claim to have written the speech.
-
- The alternatives are (1) Randle believes that the fact that Marcel
- lied to UFO investigators is not relevant to judging Marcel's
- credibility, or (2) Randle is attempting to mislead his readers.
- In either case, we can pretty much dismiss Randle as a source of
- information on Roswell.
-
- > If skeptics had a purpose other that slander, they would support
- > research into the over 4800 trace landing cases on file.
-
- Theories are usually tested by their proponets rather than their
- opponents because the main incentive to run an experiment is the
- hope of finding something new. In another thread, I've written a
- suggestion for how to formulate and test a falsifiable UFO hypothesis.
- While I support such a test, I don't support it all enthusiasticly.
- How exciting is a piece of reasearch which concludes, "We didn't see
- any UFOs?"
-
- As for more research into trace landing cases, if they are conducted
- by somebody like Randall, who will presumably not bother to mention
- any lies by his sources, what is the point? There are mountains of
- poor quality data on UFOs. That is why I suggested that UFO proponents
- formulate a falsifiable hypothesis and test it.
- Kenneth Almquist
-