From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:10:31 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:04:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Experts Divided On The UFO Dilemma - Clark


>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer.nul>
>To: ufoupdates.nul
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:31:25 +0000
>Subject: Re: Experts Divided On The UFO Dilemma

>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:12:33 -0600
>>Subject: Re: Experts Divided On The UFO Dilemma

>>>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer.nul>
>>>To: ufoupdates.nul
>>>Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:51:14 +0000
>>>Subject: Re: Experts Divided On The UFO Dilemma


>>I don't believe for a second that either of you is a closet
>>heretic, nor would any other sensible observer. The psychosocial
>>function of psychosocial ufology is not to add to perceptual
>>psychology's or neuroscience's knowledge base - as has been
>>demonstrated on this List, PSH advocates are effectively
>>illiterate on those subjects - but to reassure us that all is
>>well and that our lives and the universe are well in order. In
>>other words, darkness is just daylight misperceived. That's
>>something a whole lot of people want - need - to believe.

>Thank you Jerry for at least one unarguable demonstration of a
>phenomenon currently unexplainable by orthodox science - the
>excellent example of mind-reading above.

>Unfortunately, it's not my mind you read.

Fortunately, given your and Magonia's long paper trail, one does
not have to resort to mind-reading. It seems odd that, in this
instance, it is a prominent Magonian who is reduced to an
unnecessary paranormal explanation, when a ready prosaic
explanation, based on decades of Magonian claims from earnest
souls who no longer bother to deny that they are "sceptics," is
easily at hand.

If, on the other hand, you are signaling that you have now
changed your mind and concede that UFO and other anomalous
phenomena are indeed radically heterodox in nature, it is up to
you to let us know, with details and specifics to match. While
I'm at it, let me offer you space in IUR to outline your reasons
for this radical change of judgment.


Jerry Clark