Aliens On Earth.com Resources for those who are stranded here Bookstore Topics: UFOs - Paranormal - Area 51 - Ghosts - Forteana - Conspiracy - History - Biography - Psychology - Religion - Crime - Health - Geography - Maps - Science - Money - Language - Recreation - Technology - Fiction - Other - New Search... for keyword(s)   in Page Titles in Book Title/Author in Contents of Pages ---other searches--- Metacrawler Yahoo FAST Search Google Altavista Dogpile Inference Find Northern Light IWon.com MSN Search Las Vegas Sun Our Bookstore is OPEN Mothership -> UFO -> Updates -> 2000 -> Apr -> Here

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:01:11 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 08:44:56 -0400
Subject: Re: TMP News: Weekly Briefing 4.12.00


 >From: Serge Salvaille <sergesa@rocler.qc.ca>
 >Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:53:25 -0700
 >Fwd Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:01:22 -0400
 >Subject: Re: TMP News: Weekly Briefing 4.12.00

<snip>

 >The Nevada experiments on American soldiers:

 >In 1951 the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on or near
 >American soldiers in Nevada. This activity continued for 12
 >years at The Nevada Test Site, during the atmospheric nuclear
 >testing period that ended in 1963."

 >http://www.angelfire.com/tx/atomicveteran/exposed.html

While the story about how these soldiers were irresponsibly,
even criminally, exposed to radiation during these tests ought
to be particularly disturbing to every American, the claim that
atomic bombs were dropped _on_ troops for 12 years beginning in
1951 is false.

Big difference between _near_ and _on_, although it certainly is
not hard to forgive this guy for being imprecise in his choice
of words. Knowing the difference, we don't have to repeat it.

 >Can you imagine what is _not_ known?

Sorry, Serge, but this is an Argumentum ad ignorantiam, an
"argument from ignorance". The fallacy occurs because it's
argued that something must be true, simply because it hasn't
been proved false.

Clear skies,
Bob Young