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From: Peregrine Mendoza <101653.2205@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 09:33:38 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 13:51:38 -0400
Subject: Re: D. Bunkerism


The Duke of Mendoza presents his compliments.

>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 18:35:43 -0400
>From: Peregrine Mendoza <101653.2205@compuserve.com>
>Subject: D. Bunkerism
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

>>From: clark@canby.mn.frontiercomm.net [Jerome Clark]
>>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:10:08 PDT
>>To: updates@globalserve.net
>>Subject: D. Bunkerism

>>Debunking as applied to limited, specific issues where real
>>answers are attainable is, of course, useful and necessary.  As a
>>defining philosophical principle, however, it is, in my opinion,
>>intellectually and practically indefensible.

Although the thrust of my comment on this was really concerned
about adding to the ufological vocabulary, I should like to add
a rider: that while debunking as a defining principle may be
indefensible, its practice can still throw up gems of insight
in specific instances. Dismissing - or, what happens far more
often, simply ignoring - valid objections to the anomalousness
of a particular case on the grounds that the objector considers
all UFO sightings and experiences capable of being reduced to
prosaic or mundane events is itself intellectually dishonest,
tantamount to throwing babies out with bathwater, shooting
bearers of unwelcome tidings, &c.

And when you do get down to specific cases, the preconceptions
of many a ufologist can be seen to be just as, and sometimes
more, blinkering and distorting as any diehard debunker. But
that is another story.

Yours &c
Polecat D. Marmalade
Air Lawnmower