I guess I shouldn't have expected anything better from professional
debunkers (witness Pamphlet #2), but their Jan/Feb '96 Media column
includes a three-page whinge at _Discover_ magazine for the Hot-Headed
Naked Ice Borer Story. Something about "misleading the public" who come
to their mag to inhale pure Hard Science (tm).
No wonder I see so many Skeptics at Amway meetings. The CON has obviously
sucked out what little sense of Slack they had in the first place.
--
Anthony "Slug of Doom" Hobbs, GCP: musician and amateur ranter, Wellington, NZ.
hobbs_a@ix.wcc.govt.nz anthony@actrix.gen.nz
...or will these changing times, motorways, powerlines, keep us apart?
Well, I don't think so - I saw some grass growing through the pavement today.
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From: froggy@praline.no.NeoSoft.com (Carlos May)
Anthony Hobbs (anthony@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: I guess I shouldn't have expected anything better from professional
: debunkers (witness Pamphlet #2), but their Jan/Feb '96 Media column
: includes a three-page whinge at _Discover_ magazine for the Hot-Headed
: Naked Ice Borer Story. Something about "misleading the public" who come
: to their mag to inhale pure Hard Science (tm).
They don't like the April Fool's Day tradition, eh?
: No wonder I see so many Skeptics at Amway meetings. The CON has obviously
: sucked out what little sense of Slack they had in the first place.
Scheptics with no sence of humor? Sheesh, that's almost as repulsive
as dimwitted newager groopies with no sence of humor. No, even more
repulsive, since at least the newagers are easy to bilk a buck out of.
Didn't "The Scheptical Inquirer" or whatever magazine run a piece
on "Bob" a couple of years ago where it was obvious they didn't
even come close to getting it?
Well, none the less, I gotta say that CSICOP (Committee for Scientific
Investigation of Claims Of the Paranormal, if ya dunno) gives me Slack.
In this namby pamby age of "Whatever you want to believe is spirtually
valid, think good thoughts and they'll come true!" it gives me slack
to see the CSICOP scheptics stand up and yell in the face of little
old ladies and yuppie scum "YOU GULLIBLE SUCKER!! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT
THE SO CALLED PSYCHIC YOU JUST GAVE YOUR LIFE SAVINGS TO IS PERFORMING
A CON GAME USING SIMPLE SLIGHT OF HAND TRICKS KNOWN TO ANY TWO-BIT
SIDESHOW SHILL!?!?"
Of course, the Church of the SubGenius could easily grab CSICOP's
standing offer of $500,000 for demonstration of genuine paranormal
powers under laboratory conditions just by bringing in THE BLEEDING
HEAD OF *YOU KNOW*. But of course we won't. We're holding out
for at least $30 million. Besides, after the demonstration,
The Amazing Randi and his pals would die within days from the
Yactizma Radiation Burns. And that would be a shame, because
then we wouldn't get to be amused by finding out how some 12 year
old fooled 5 million people in Japan into thinking she could read
through folded paper using the simple trick of unfolding the
paper, looking at the writing, and folding it back together.
-- Frater Frogalogus
"What's the relative proportion to free interstellar stupidity as opposed
to that entrained in the human body?" -- dynasor@infi.net
* Froggy@neosoft.com ** "The Information Super-Frog" [dibs]*
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From: gggor@io.com (gg gordon)
In article <4l11g9$2qd@atlantis.atlantis.actrix.gen.nz>, anthony@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Anthony Hobbs) says:
>No wonder I see so many Skeptics at Amway meetings. The CON has obviously
>sucked out what little sense of Slack they had in the first place.
Yeah, pure skepticism drives out slack just as with enough
Slack you can believe just about ANYTHING!
GGG
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From: anthony@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Anthony Hobbs)
Carlos May <froggy@praline.no.NeoSoft.com> wrote:
> They don't like the April Fool's Day tradition, eh?
Either that, or they don't think that humour has any place anywhere near
the sacred temple of Hard Science (tm). I thought the Discordian Church
was invented *solely* to wipe people like that out!
> Scheptics with no sence of humor? Sheesh, that's almost as repulsive
> as dimwitted newager groopies with no sence of humor. No, even more
> repulsive, since at least the newagers are easy to bilk a buck out of.
Heh, I'm a committed Pagan, and most of *us* think that New Agers are
vapid and silly. Leads to the old joke:
"What's the difference between Pagan and New Age? One order of
magnitude in price".
> In this namby pamby age of "Whatever you want to believe is spirtually
> valid, think good thoughts and they'll come true!"
Well, that's actually *true*. Of course, the opposite is also true, as
revealed in holy scripture: "By working with the worst possible scenario,
you give WOTAN the respect he deserves, and he'll go easy on you."
> it gives me slack to see the CSICOP scheptics stand up and yell in the
> face of little old ladies and yuppie scum "YOU GULLIBLE SUCKER!! CAN'T
> YOU SEE THAT THE SO CALLED PSYCHIC YOU JUST GAVE YOUR LIFE SAVINGS TO
> IS PERFORMING A CON GAME USING SIMPLE SLIGHT OF HAND TRICKS KNOWN TO
> ANY TWO-BIT SIDESHOW SHILL!?!?"
Remember, crystal-hugging and "channelled" knowledge does give some
people slack, and we should not begrudge them that. All that we should
begrudge is the Pinkness that makes them pay exorbitant prices for the
stuff, when they could get it much cheaper from "Bob".
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