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Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
Fran, you are committing logical fallacy after logical fallacy. First you are making a base assertion fallacy; that your premise is true just because you say it is true. Then a negative proof fallacy; that because your premise cannot be proven false then it must be true. You attempt to make an appeal to ridicule by immediately dismissing any explanation other than the one you want.
Originally posted by kerazeesicko
reply to post by franspeakfree
Those are not experts, just people making more assumptions about what they know nothing of. As said before unless you have experienced what happens in space firsthand, No one on this board is qualified to make statements like they are actual fact. We the laymen have no idea what truly happens with physics in space. The believers are constantly asking for people to debunk the NASA footage, well it can't be done because there are no first hand experiencers here and niether can the believers make statements that they have smoking guns because they are just as knowledgeable about space as me, which I have no clue. How can believers and debunkers make claims without first hand knowledge of such things.
Originally posted by heyo
I'm not a big poster on the "alien" threads, but posts like this take away from the actual issue, and instead turn it into a personal attack, thereby leaving the issue hanging, and usually, leaving it for dead. Distract, smear.
Originally posted by heyo
So basically what you are saying is that no one can ever say anything is true because no one knows everything.
Originally posted by heyo
It IS personal, what you posted, because it did not give any rebuttals regarding what these things might be...
Originally posted by heyo
It had nothing to do with the facts he presented, only how he presented them
Originally posted by heyo
semantics. smear campagn. call it whatever you want.
Again, you want to engage in case-by-case study rather than debating the topic. You both fail to recognize that unexplained does not equate to unexplainable or that a failure of a skeptic to explain a case does not mean your explanation is correct by default. All this spaghetti-against-the-wall tactic serves to do is degenerate this thread into fighting over cases instead of discussing the state of study.
Further, both you, Friedman and certain others participating in both this thread and forum fail to understand mainstream science and skepticism is not responsible for the sorry state of Ufology. It is the UFO research community itself that is to blame.
Originally posted by 1SawSomeThings
Look at this ATS link later for recent discussions over "debunker" tactics.
For example, one shouldn't look at cases or evidence, rather flaws in one's debating skills and language semantics (Link). Yikes!
Many of us understand science from university education, but it needs to be "mainstream science"! So failure to kowtow to mainstream means we are not qualified to participate?
Will someone please define "mainstream science"? Does that mean officially blessed? Where can we get that degree?
Originally posted by mythos
you see... NASA & UFO in the same sentence. it is a subliminal offering.
these words enter into the subconcious of us lay-folk who stare at our screens, digesting what they (whoever THEY might be...) want us too.
Originally posted by h3akalee
If a mosquito can survive in space then shureley it make's sense something else can too.
Take care.
Regards
Lee