"Art Wholeflaffer" <science@zzz.com> wrote in message
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Can The Scientific  Community Be Trusted?

COLUMBUS, Ohio (U-Wire) - The scientific community has always been
quick to dismiss any kind of alternative viewpoint that threatens to
throw the 'accepted' knowledge of the world into question.  Sometimes
this scurry to explain the unexplainable leads to leaps in logic that
can only be described as laughable. This is the case with the latest
report on new developments in the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence.

While browsing the magazine section at a local convenience store I
happened to stumble upon a
headline that deeply disturbed me. Right on the cover of the July issue
of Scientific American appeared the declaration: "Alien Civilizations:
if they exist why aren't they here?" I was intrigued.
I just had to investigate the logic that would lead someone to make
such an uninformed statement and get it published in a supposedly
scientific publication.

It is a bit arrogant. Especially since we could make a case for being alone
in the Galaxy (ha - what's the chance of that!) but certainly not the
Universe. It must be dreadful to make such predictions - people will look
back 100 years from now and laugh their heads off! There was a Scientist
some 100 years ago or so that said that everything worth discovering had
already been discovered! What a dildo! There are plenty Scientists who hold
contrary views to this guy but it's not worth arguing since the UFO crowd
have not got their act together yet. They are a bunch of amateurs with a few
exceptions.

M.P



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