Comment on Journey Into Woo Land

 I see over on the JREF Mr. Lancaster posted about my blog here. He's states he tried to leave a comment but couldn't, don't know why it didn't work. He posted on the JREF what he would have left here, and since I'm a kindly kind of dame, I'm posting it on Snarly Skepticism:

Regan:


Hello, Robert Lancaster here again.


First, there are no plans for any "forthcoming book on evil mediums." I have been encouraged - on the JREF forum and elsewhere - to write a book on the experiences I've had while writing my "Stop" sites. And - who knows - perhaps some day I will. But I currently have no plans to do so, so for you to state that what I do is "to sell a forthcoming book" is simply incorrect.

I said "that was me, not him" didn't I? Why yes I did:

"...which seems to be, aside from the pathological journey itself -- to sell a forthcoming book on evil mediums. Okay, he didn't say that, I did."

Is what I do "pathological, obsessive, authoritarian, arrogant, fanatical and zealous"?

Why yes, yes it is. Didn't I also say that like a ga-zillion times?  Goodness.

I'll cop to charges of being zealous. there's no denying that. And even my own wife - my greatest supporter in my "Stop" endeavors - has called me "obsessed" on the subject.


But couldn't all of these descriptions also apply to someone who maintains a website about "snarly skepticism" and keeps an "unofficial watch" on the JREF?

Ah, but see, I have plenty of other interests that keep me busy as well, ... but it's clear that Mr. Lancaster and others on the ol' JREF are faaaaaarrrrr more industrious in their zeal than I could ever hope to be.

It's painfully easy to use those words to describe someone who disagrees with you on something evidently important to you. I notice you do not argue with anything I say about Browne, but instead make light of it. Why is that?

Maybe because I find the whole thing hysterical and not worth the "let's play with the woo" game you like to play. It's not about Browne, or JVP, or any of the other mediums or woos on your list - - it's about the uber-skeptoid mind set.