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From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 07:38:12 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 13:18:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Jerry Black's Open Letter to Friedman


>From: Greg Sandow <gsandow@prodigy.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Jerry Black's Open Letter to Friedman
>Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 11:04:37 -0400

<snip>

>Enough. I don't care whether I agree with Black, or disagree
>with him, about the many points he raises in his open letters.
>But I'm offended enough by his tone to feel I should say
>something.

>Greg Sandow

Mr. Sandow;

Please look beyond the 'tone' and scrutinize the _substance_ of
what Mr. Black has to offer. It would be a mistake to assume
such a dismissive approach to his comments, as many have
repeatedly sought to do.

Where it not for "people like" Mr. Black [as Stanton Friedman
puts it], then who is to cry foul when MUFON leadership
dismisses - or _fires_ - its investigators when they assume
positions contrary to party-line, who would argue against
researchers such as Bruce Maccabee when they proclaim Gulf
Breeze - a case so deeply suspect - to be of merit, and who
might offer, out of their own pocket, lie-detector tests to the
various 'suspects' of UFOdom as Mr. Black has?

Were you not disturbed, Mr. Sandow, when Stanton Friedman
published his recent book "Top-Secret/Majic" with an endorsing
review by the tabloid Star Magazine on its cover? (Further, the
back cover provides another promotional review by the Executive
Producer of a science-fiction television program...)

Does this constitute what can be expected by scientific
objectivity that would be approved or published in 'peer
reviewed journals' as Mr. Friedman once stated to Jerry Black?
Are Friedman's 'peer reviewers' cronies from The Weekly World
News or lackies hanging out behind the set of the next X-Files
shoot?

But when the reader pages through the book, one only needs to
read the Foreword to get their share of skew and agenda. The
author of Friedman's foreword is none-other-than Whitley
Strieber - UFO abductee, contactee, claimant, former
science-fiction writer (who has, by the way, afforded no
response to Mr. Black's offer to re-polygraph him at Black's own
expense).

No, Mr. Sandow. Think of where Mr. Black's comments are headed,
and the long-term implications of all this. Jerry Black should
not be brushed off so routinely. We would do well to consider
his thoughts, closely.

Thanks,

Kenny Young
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