Bob Casanova wrote:

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:29:12 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Sir Arthur CB
Wholeflaffers ASA <science@zzz.com>:

Bob Casanova wrote:

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:58:11 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Sir Arthur CB
Wholeflaffers ASA <science@zzz.com>:

Bob Casanova wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:30:51 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Sir Arthur CB
Wholeflaffers ASA <science@zzz.com>:

Bob Casanova wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:41:56 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Sir Arthur CB
Wholeflaffers ASA <science@zzz.com>:

Bob Casanova wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:39:21 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Sir Arthur CB
Wholeflaffers ASA <science@zzz.com>:

Bob Casanova wrote:

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:58:33 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Sir Arthur CB
Wholeflaffers ASA <science@zzz.com>:

Bob Casanova wrote:

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:07:15 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Sir Arthur CB
Wholeflaffers ASA <science@zzz.com>:

Bob Casanova wrote:

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:54:24 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by "Sir Arthur C.B.E.
Wholeflaffers A.S.A." <science@zzz.com>:

This is getting pretty redundant...

Yeah, and that's one of your *minor* problems.

...wrong decision...OFFICIAL notice...hard-core specti-bunker...

"Specti-bunker"? A hole in the ground with corrective
lenses?

Run away! Run away!

Debunkers...FACTS...debunkers...facts...stupid!!!

So, Artie/Gary, what about the Famous Specti-Bunkers (TM)?
Any relation to the Fuehrerbunker?

...the closet FEMA camp...

When will it come out of the closet?

... Debunkers...civilzied society...<drool>...<fumble>...<drool>...

But what about civil*ized* society? Is it in the
Specti-Bunker?

Run away! Run away!

...debunker...OFFICIAL notices...the General...the Octagon...quasi-governmental
edict...debunkers...FEMA camps...the Camp?...whacked out cult...<slobber>...<drool>...

Wipe off your chin, Artie/Gary.

...BANISHED...Usenet...dismissed...idiot...cult...Usenet...cult...FEMA...<drool>...

So, Artie/Gary, what about that Specti-Bunker? Got plenty of
Kool-Aid stocked?

Run away! Run away!

...shaking...debunkers...SLEEPING GIANT...whiff...deception
...cult...debunkers...debunker...debunkers...punks...liars
... deceivers...truth-terrorists...debunkers...ROT...HELL
...disgusting...scum...debunkers...ilk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...<drool>...<slobber>...

...and poor Artie/Gary without an ilk permit...

Wipe your chin before you drown, Artie/Gary. Then...

Run away! Run away!

...FLETCH ...rough...NSA...spOOk...Borsch...cult...camps...debunkers
...mankind...kooks...THIS ISLAND EARTH...ALL MANKIND...truth-terrorists
...idiots...debunkers...vile...evil...disgusting...<drool>...<slobber>...

Your shirt's getting wet...

Casanobrain, you are beginning to crack up, seek help NOW!!

And now: the three Golden rules of the UFO debunker:

1) Attack the person not the evidence.  ---- As listed above, the
preponderance of evidence to establish the existence of
extraterrestrials and their other-worldly crafts is overwhelming.  So
instead of acknowledging the evidence, ATTACK the persons'
credibility.  Call them "crackpots" and "lunatics."  If they don't
have a college degree, assault them for that.  If they do have a
degree, even a Ph. D. ask them the relevance of it to the subject
matter.  To quote Vince Lombardi: "The best defense is a good offense"
so be offensive.  Perhaps use a Phil Klass technique, and declare
people who claim to have been abducted by aliens,  "little nobodies,
people seeking celebrity status."  That usually pisses a bunch of
people off.  Another Phil Klass technique which is also very clever,
(as quoted from the Don Ecker radio talk show) just yell out this nice
expletive: "BULLSHIT" and hang up the phone.  That leaves the audience
bewildered and bothered,
and makes you look like the Authority-Figure.

2) Have a closed mind or "Don't bother me with the facts my mind is
made up." --- Unfortunately, sometimes you will have to address the
evidence.  It can be quite ugly and you really don't want to hear it.
So rule #2 is keep a stiff upper lip, perhaps roll your eyes and just
drown out the other person when they are trying to make a point or
quote a statistic.   Try to dismiss the facts, here is another quote
from the Messiah, Phil Klass, "Even airline pilots can be grossly
mistaken."  Wow!  Would you really want to fly commercially if that
was true, I sure wouldn't.  But by the time the audience tries to
figure out what you meant, just move on to another one liner, such as
"Wrong, wrong, wrong!"

Now, whom is the audience going to believe someone who just
illuminated a point by using some great research, or you, the
"debunker" who only has to say "wrong, wrong, wrong."  You may try
throwing in some obscure references and words like "confabulation."
Gets them every time!

3) Come up with any kind of flimsy explanation, it makes people feel
better.  Yes students, it's still really potent, spouting a reason
that lacks substance.  Remember, American's are science-illiterates,
and they wouldn't know an isotope from ice cream, or an electron from
a election. So razzle-dazzle them with b.s.  Here are a bunch of
official-sounding  denials that lack merit, but sound plausible: swamp
gas (but only where there's swamps!), atmospheric mumbo-jumbo,
temperature inversions, funny looking clouds, planets, hallucinations,
shadows and light, smoke and mirrors,  mistaken this or that, hoaxes,
and that old standby, "Doug and Dave" which was recently used capably
in Parade magazine by you know whom!!!!! (He is deceased now but his
memory lives on!)