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From: Henny van der Pluijm <hvdp@worldonline.nl>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:44:39 +0100 (MET)
Fwd Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:20:27 -0500
Subject: Re: 'The X-Factor' (issue 25) - Question to Corso

At 11:40 13-12-97 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:40:54 -0700
>From: jared@valuserve.com (Jared Anderson)
>To: Updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: 'The X-Factor' (issue 25) - Question to Corso

>> From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 17:30:35 -0500
>> Fwd Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 23:28:51 -0500
>> Subject: Re: 'The X-Factor' (issue 25) - Question to Corso

>> Good question, and one that will cause most people to write this
>> book off as unsubstantiated nonsense.  The question that many are
>> trying to answer is why a man with such a career history would
>> want to make such allegations.  From my understanding his income
>> from the book was very small, so the profit motive seems to be
>> missing.  This is especially true considerring his age.

>Can you talk a little more about that?...that's been the subject
>of a good degree of debate. There have been a lot of questions
>regarding just exactly how much financial gain Corso and his
>family stand to achieve from the book. I, personally, have no
>idea. Where did you hear that Corso's financial gain from book
>sales was small? Like you, I'm somewhat leary of critics taking
>refuge in the rather simpleminded contention that Corso
>fabricated all his UFO/alien claims in his book in order to seek
>financial gain. If there are other motivations for fabricating
>such claims for a man of his age in his position it's certainly
>incumbent on us to find out what they are.

>...questions abound.


Hi Jared, Steven,

Please keep in mind that before publication of the book
nobody knew how much money it would earn for Corso or for the
publisher.

In other words, the "how much money has he made" issue
is irrelevant.

I have develop a rule for this: the faster someone
claims that a certain act in Ufology is done for the money,
the less research the claimant has done.



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