Re: What about false accusations?
There's been much obfuscation and water-muddying in both cases. Sadly, satanic abuse IS something that happens a lot. As a result of a lot of high-profile people being implicated, the American False Memory Syndrome Foundation was created. This particular organisation did more water-muddying than most. One guy made a big issue out of the fact that he couldn't possibly have raped and let other men rape his 15 year old daughter, because medical tests showed she was still a virgin. (i.e. Her hymen was still intact, an impossibility if vaginal sex had ever taken place, let alone gang rape.) What didn't make the press very much, was that in her statement the girl said she was only ever raped anally. Little facts like that often get swept under the carpet, while organisations that look good on the outside are really organising mass cover-ups for IMMENSE child abuse rings.
The same thing happens in the case of alien abductions. You say that the "skeptic debunked them". Well quite often all the skeptics manage to do (including one particular illogical, ranting asshole called Phillip J. Klass) is make a lot of hot air and noise that convinces peeople who don't know very much about the subject, because they can't be arsed getting into the finer details. There are hundreds if not thousands of cases where no holes can be picked, and there exists a true anomally to be investigated. But critics make a lot of vague noises and people think they sound logical. One such case was Mr. Klass objecting to Travis Walton helping to choose the questions to be asked him on his lie-detector test, after his 1974 encounter in Arizona. What Mr. Klass fails to mention, is that such practice is standard polygraph procedure as any qualified person could tell you. (Lok up the name of Cy Gilson on th net, if you want to know more.) But because Klass barks this out with such an "Oh look at what I've discovered for you peeps!" air about him, people believe him because it sounds logical to the uninformed point of view.
mabus said:
There's been much obfuscation and water-muddying in both cases. Sadly, satanic abuse IS something that happens a lot. As a result of a lot of high-profile people being implicated, the American False Memory Syndrome Foundation was created. This particular organisation did more water-muddying than most. One guy made a big issue out of the fact that he couldn't possibly have raped and let other men rape his 15 year old daughter, because medical tests showed she was still a virgin. (i.e. Her hymen was still intact, an impossibility if vaginal sex had ever taken place, let alone gang rape.) What didn't make the press very much, was that in her statement the girl said she was only ever raped anally. Little facts like that often get swept under the carpet, while organisations that look good on the outside are really organising mass cover-ups for IMMENSE child abuse rings.
The same thing happens in the case of alien abductions. You say that the "skeptic debunked them". Well quite often all the skeptics manage to do (including one particular illogical, ranting asshole called Phillip J. Klass) is make a lot of hot air and noise that convinces peeople who don't know very much about the subject, because they can't be arsed getting into the finer details. There are hundreds if not thousands of cases where no holes can be picked, and there exists a true anomally to be investigated. But critics make a lot of vague noises and people think they sound logical. One such case was Mr. Klass objecting to Travis Walton helping to choose the questions to be asked him on his lie-detector test, after his 1974 encounter in Arizona. What Mr. Klass fails to mention, is that such practice is standard polygraph procedure as any qualified person could tell you. (Lok up the name of Cy Gilson on th net, if you want to know more.) But because Klass barks this out with such an "Oh look at what I've discovered for you peeps!" air about him, people believe him because it sounds logical to the uninformed point of view.
