On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:06:39 GMT, "OhBrother" <Nobody@noplace.com> wrote
A bunch of not so craftfully written propaganda fraught with logical
fallacies:

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/fallacies.htm#Introduction

A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The alphabetical list below
provides explanations and examples of 157 of the most common fallacies.
Fallacies should not be persuasive, but they often are. Sometimes reasoners
produce a fallacy unintentionally, but on other occasions the intent is to
mislead others. The vast majority of the commonly identified fallacies
involve arguments, although some involve explanations, or definitions, or
other products of reasoning. Sometimes the term "fallacy" is used even more
broadly to indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. The list
below includes some fallacies of this sort, but most of its fallacies
involve errors of reasoning, and among the errors of reasoning, the emphasis
is on errors in arguing informally in natural language.

[...]

 Try for one minute to set aside your sci-fi channel
notions and think about it rationally.  

Logical Fallacy: strawman 

On one side you have legions of true
believers armed with ''photos'', abduction stories, theories and
predictions.  

Logical fallacy: Loaded language, false dichotomy

On the other you have people who have spent many years of
their lives obtaining educations and who, by virtue of their committment to
science, attempt to keep an open mind, but who also have ''first
principals'' to guide their thinking.

Logicical fallacies:  Ad Verecundiam,  false dilemma 

Up pops a Loon who shouts 

Logical fallacy:  Ad hominem

"There's Aliens!" to which the question comes back
"You're kidding, where are they".  The Loon thinks for a moment, and since
his mind is uncluttered by little issues such as credibility of evidence, he
immediately screams ''foul'', (or in your case ''PUNKS!'').

Logical fallacies:  Ad hominem, begging the question, false analogy

Albeit, I have created a black and white image here, 

Yes you have.  'Black and White' is a logical fallacy of false dilemma 

nevertheless the
process is typical.  The harder the ''debunker'' presses the ''Loon'' for
actual facts, concrete models of what is happening, the harder the ''Look''
screams "debunkers", "CIA", etc.  (this area has been very well pioneered by
our friend Art Wholeflaffer over on AAV, so I'll leave you to do the
citations yourself).

Logical fallacies:  Guilt by association, ad hominem, and several others.

<snip rest>

In short, it sucks to be you.

In short is sucks to have your faulty reasoning abilities.

O'

PS:  Sock puppets are second and third net-identities created mostly like
Loons.  So Pietro, Judoka_61, blaster and your other dozen or so
'identities' seem to point the finger more in your direction than in anyone
elses.