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To: donh
As science now stands, our fallback position when the evidence is interesting, but cloaked in mystery, is not alien UFO's, it is undergraduate pranksters.

That should be, PUBLICALY accessible science tends to debunk UFOs (and crop circles, and cattle mutilations, and etc...).

318 posted on 07/17/2002 6:16:00 PM PDT by FormerLurker
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To: FormerLurker
That should be, PUBLICALY accessible science tends to debunk UFOs (and crop circles, and cattle mutilations, and etc...).

Well, much of that would better be called journalism than science, however, where it is science--that's science's workaday job--debunking things. I can prove that animals spoke the Kings English rather well 10,000 years ago if mere dispositive proof is our measure of truth--the historical sources are plentiful. "Proving" things is as easy as it is inconclusive. Disproving things, however, tends to stick, and to help us carve our way incrementally closer to the truth of nature.

I'm sorry your ox was gored, but goring oxen is what science is usually about when it is on its marks.

354 posted on 07/18/2002 2:31:04 PM PDT by donh
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