H. wrote:

"Sir Arthur CB Wholeflaffers ASA" <science@zzz.com>
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Bob Casanova wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:38:56 -0500, the following
appeared
in sci.skeptic, posted by "HVAC"
<harlowcampbell@gmail.com>:

"Sir Arthur CB Wholeflaffers ASA" <science@zzz.com>
wrote in message
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Casanobrain, isn't it about time that you leave the
Usenet on a
permanent basis?  The jury says yes, get out of
here.  These groups
are for civilized people.
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Great idea, Arti0 !  Let's put it to a vote.
I vote Mr. Casanova should stay and YOU should go.
Do I hear a second?

Hey, don't kick him off! He's more fun than a barrel
of
monkeys! Of course, he's not as intelligent, but you
can't
have everything...

Casanobrain,  I DEMAND that you turn yourself into
the proper
authorities!  They are ready for you and your ilk at
the FEMA Death
Camps, so GET marching to the tune of FEMA!!

What's with you SUPER NUT?  I finally see the light and
volunteer to go to the "death camps", now you say you
don't want me.  You must have really lost both oars
this time.  I have been agitating idiots like you for
more than 20 years, now you are afraid I will tell
everyone how you are all nuts.

Face it Holeflapper you have totally lost it.  Any
respect you ever had has been flushed down the pot with
the last of your brains.

Get off of the Usenet and go see a shrink, you need
one.

Folks, this bum is part of the NSA, his job is to disrupt these
groups, he has FAILED and FAILED miserably.

Debunkers: I have heard it said that the most frustrating and least
useful aspect of ufology is the machinations of the debunkers.
Debunkers are experts at the use of disinformation, misinformation,
and propaganda. They provide prosaic explanations for everything. If
the first story gets challenged, they simply generate another story
and do not even apologize for changing their position. No information
or data supplied by the ufologist is ever good enough for them. Truth,
honesty, ethics and things like that are foreign to their way of
operating because it might erode their position. They seldom do real
investigations.

Most of their explanations are canned and used over and over so that
they do not feel it necessary to do investigations. All this is very
frustrating to the ufologists that conduct extensive investigations,
record every little detail of a UFO incident, assemble statistics,
maintain vast databases, and probably most of all, respect the good
and honest witnesses who report their UFO incidents.

Perhaps it would help ufologists to deal with the debunkers if they
understood why the debunkers act in such a manner. This is best
described in The Argument Culture, a book by Georgetown University
professor Deborah Tannen. These machinations are an example of what
the cultural linguist Walter Ong calls "agonism" or "programmed
contentiousness." Agonism does not refer to disagreement, conflict, or
vigorous dispute. It refers to ritualized opposition.