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From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:21:04 -0300
Fwd Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:52:52 -0400
Subject: Re: 'Mars Face Breaks Under Questioning'


 >From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@sympatico.ca>
 >To: 02 - UFO UpDates Subscribers
 >Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:25 PM
 >Subject: UFO UpDate: 'Mars Face Breaks Under Questioning'


 >Source: space.com

 >http://www.space.com/opinionscolumns/opinions/ford_000613.html

 >Mars Face Breaks Under Questioning

 >By Pete Ford
 >posted: 07:10 pm ET
 >13 June 2000

<snip>

This article is another splendid example of the noisy negativist
at work, or better yet at play. Ford follows the 4 basis rules
for debunkers:

l. What the public doesn't know, I am not going to tell them.

2. Don't bother me with the facts, my mind is made up,

3. If you can't attack the data, attack the people; it is much
    easier.

4.Do you research by proclamation, rather than by investigation.
   It is much easier.

Nothing about the scientific work of DePietro, Carlotto,
Brandenberg. No understanding of how security works and how many
secrets have been kept.. such as the work of the 12,000 members
of the Enigma teams at Bletchley Park for 30 years. Ford creates
silly scenarios... easy for a science fiction writer, but seems
to be totally unaware of the scientific work that has been done.
I am not taking a stand one way or another about the face. But
this is garbage work similar to the efforts of Joe Nickell and
James Randi about UFOs.

Stanton Friedman