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From: Martin Phillips <mphillips@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:26:47 +0100
Fwd Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:44:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Mad Max: Beyond the Blunderdome


>Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:42:40 -0400
>From: Nathan Ranger <netrangr@ufo.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Mad Max: Beyond the Blunderdome

>See people, the whole problem with ufology is the fact that
>everybody wants it to be what they want it to be so they can say
>"See! I _told_ you so!" in order to get that big ________ deal.
>[Fill in the blank with whatever you want.] Nobody gives a _damn_
>about what it (it, meaning the UFO mystery) really is, except a
>few _and_ those few get the _crap_ riduculed out of them for
>following some sort of scientific reasoning.


Amen - I've been a subscriber to this List for a year. I'm not a
researcher (pompous title?), just a very interested member of
the public. I can't believe how quickly any debate turns into a
swapping of insults and selective snipping of evidence to back
up ideas.

>I just
>don't like namecalling in ufology. Its unprofessional and
>witless.)

Damn right.

>All researchers have their weak points. They have their areas
>that give them navigation trouble. Instead of namecalling, we
>should offer help. But, that doesn't happen.

>See, thats why they call it "fringe" science. In _real_ science
>things like this happen a lot less and there is a cohesive
>structure to keep all the data together rather than a bunch of
>profit motivated pirahnas trying to tear each other's data
>apart, devour it and poop out golden oportunities to make more
>profit. What if we went at atomic energy or space flight or
>computer engineering this way, the world would be a FUBARed
>mess! Get a clue people.

I was with you all the way until there. This kind of behaviour
happens in the 'real' science world too - it's just that you
don't see it unless you look for it.

>Who needs government disinformation agents? Just paint a little
>blood on all the sharks and watch them eat each other!
>Ufological politics is more stupid than US Government politics.
>At least with government politics, there is usually a clear
>objective: get elected.

I can't see the field of UFO research being taken seriously when
the level of debate is similar to the arguments that my daughter
used to have with her friends a few years ago (and she's only
nine now).

Isn't it time to stop for just a minute and think about
controlling the temper tantrums and egos? Well, I can dream.

Martin Phillips