From: George Hansen <gphansen2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:26:48 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:32:31 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Hansen


 >From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online.de>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 01:28:48 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Corso - Goldstein

 >I would highly recommend that you and all Listerions
 >follow what is being learned in neuroscience.

 >I follow UFO research for one primary reason.
 >That is to see what in the field of study can
 >pass the muster of real science.


Yes, "real science," real "truth."

Like religious fundamentalists, Goldstein, of the neuroscience
persuasion, dares not read the literature of competing
denominations (e.g., anthropology). To do so would subject him
to the jeers and sneers of his brethren.

The canon of his denomination is sacred, and everything must be
interpreted according to it.

Christian fundamentalists denounce papist ideas as of the devil.
They shun talk of magic or mysticism. Their intellectual
descendants, the neuroscientists, maintain the same prohibitions
-- markers to signify the boundaries of their sect. The taboo is
strong. For neuroscientists and their acolytes to read works
outside their denomination would endanger their very souls.

They cling to their "truth." They shout it from the ramparts of
academe. But they sense that it is decaying, and that is why
they are shouting.


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