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I guess my statements were too obvious. No one has any defense for the current state of the community?

Grant's accent is pretty thick. There are some great youtube videos of him, especially speaking at the Disinformation con. His writings on the subject are fascinating as well.

Yeah, he seems awfully big on boasting and inflating his role in things. I assume all the credentials he names are real (didn't he say he was a cop and an FBI agent, and that Fox Mulder was based on him?). I guess I also felt his accusations against Dr. Leir should have been kept to...

I see ghosts and astral entities, but not much in the way of ufos. Apparantly, I'm not wired for ufos, because I've spent a lot of time out-of-doors, and I would like some personal confirmation that such things exist. My personal "atunement," if you will, with the pararnormal leads more to the...

90% of it most like shadows & mirrors, and 60 year game of rumor that has distilled the truth out of the mix. And self-delusion, can't forget that one. It's the 10% non-hoax stuff that intrigues me.

Sims talks a good talk, rattling off lots of errata very fast. It's quite dazzling, really.

Yeah, it is. Bright people with agile minds get interested, and they subsequently encounter a class of people who greet the newcomers with arrogant indifferance. These people have patience with others that extends only so far as collecting cash from them, or that can be parlayed into...

I don't worry about it too much anymore. If you don't give speaches, or if you don't write a book and go on a blog-cast radio tour, people honestly don't give a rat's ass what you think. You become one wanker with a "pet theory" that you are trying to foist on uninterested pseudo...

I think Ghost hunters and ufologists are barely in the same field, because their approaches are so different. Take the show with John Zaffis: It seemed at some points Gene and Dave were not getting through to John, and visa versa. There's a paradigm difference between the two groups. I...

This is why lights in the night sky are of dubious use. Bubba the witness who saw his neighbor could be a disinformation agent, but we'll never know because now the picture is mudied (or proven debunked). We have one guy's word on it, and we don't know his motivation. It probably was...

A lot of what David theorized in this segment made sense to me, especially the part about the truth for one person may not be the same as the truth for another person. The thing that keeps me from taking the leap into the waters of meta-paranormal theory, where all high strangeness comes from...

Third option: It's the truth as he percieves it. He wouldn't be the first writer who lives in a well-developed psychosis. I'm not saying this is the case, but it's possible. His stories wouldn't hold up, but he would be totally convinced.

It would be interesting, but I doubt he would do it. If I were him, I wouldn't do it, because it would be no fun to face to be put on the spot like that.

Strangely, I personally don't care too much why this works. It works well, is very accurate and repeatable, and does it's job. I don't have to understand why it works anymore than I understand exactly how, say, telephones work. Even if I didn't understand telephones, I wouldn't be much...

Seems reasonable, Swatcher. I guess my point is calling for proof is a good subject in its own right, but if, for example, you were to go to a right-wing Christian forum and suddenly interject yourself on threads about whatever and calling on people to objectively show proof God exists, it...

The fact that there is a forum to discuss this means that there is a subject to discuss. Challenging everyone for hard proof is trollish. You know the situation as well as everyone else. It's not cool to attack people for discussing a reality as they see it.

I pass for normal in most circumstances, but once people find out I'm a professional cartoonist then an interest in the paranormal seems unsurprising to them. I guess as an artist, who mostly hangs out with other artists, fringe interests are taken in stride. That having been said, most people...

I'm not a ghost hunter, and don't plan on becoming one. That means, for me, I won't be trying dowsing rods or emf meters or anything else like that to find or prove the existence of ghosts. Science isn't the the end all-be all, but it is a good system for figuring out things. I feel...

Yeah, this seems to go past all credulity. Why would the aliens then tell leaders to make policy that makes a throw-away poor class? The poor have always been among us. People have fallen through the cracks down through history.