Last night, Jim and I were watching a rerun of the UFO Files on the History Channel; this episode was on the Aurora, Texas crash in 1897. At one point in the program, after all kinds of talk about what happened, the search for, and discovery of some debris, etc. the voice over says, as they fade to commercial:
Skeptics fight back.
Jim and I both looked at each other at the same moment; we both said at the same time
"Skeptics fight back?! Was someone attacking them?"
It made me laugh; what do ya mean, "skeptics fight back?" Was someone in their sandbox, grabbing all their toys? Were any threats or accusations made at any particular skeptic? Did a UFO investigator choose off someone from SETI, the JREF, or the local Texas Anti-UFO Skeptic Society?
No, of course not. But still, "skeptics fight back!," dammit!
Turned out to be nothing really; just various theories, some townsfolk didn't believe it, some did, and so on. Nothing like a Shermer, Randi, Oberg, McGaha, or Nye, etc. (And a good thing, about a scientist testing some material that turned out to be a gear from a pump, and clarifications on the make up of the material, etc. Which seemed obvious, that it was from an earth made machine; do we really think aliens would have gears? Aren't they beyond that?)
Anyway, just a minor observation in the realm of Skepto Land.
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