tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post1724230125746050984..comments2024-03-29T02:10:02.587-07:00Comments on Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe: Guest Post: NEITH CONTEMPT by Martin S. Kottmeyer - Vallee's Zombie Moon of Venus?Robert Sheafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15324537021429419111noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-57866508371936995602018-02-11T04:01:24.651-08:002018-02-11T04:01:24.651-08:00I don't know how honest Vallee is, but I can s...I don't know how honest Vallee is, but I can say that you, while mentioning the passage in Fort, don't say that Fort has it under "visitors to Venus," and that he talks of observations of a large body approaching a planet - 'staying awhile - going away - coming back some other time - anchoring as it were'<br />That the astronomer Houzeau named this Neith...Svejkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02612200679929323714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-90064631091424913342016-07-14T12:28:24.544-07:002016-07-14T12:28:24.544-07:00You call the skeptoid piece 'damning informati...You call the skeptoid piece 'damning information' ? Why not swampgas...George Kanakarishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08095937445970211816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-88147006614100250842016-04-06T08:50:17.956-07:002016-04-06T08:50:17.956-07:00There's even more damning information about Te...There's even more damning information about Tehran 1976 than is contained in this article but it gets it essentially correct.<br /><br />https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4315zoamchomskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519698426338891542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-89403569626234291242016-04-05T23:19:27.741-07:002016-04-05T23:19:27.741-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.zoamchomskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519698426338891542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-55385104329645210332016-04-05T20:50:37.243-07:002016-04-05T20:50:37.243-07:00Hi,
I am David Anderson. Since I couldn't fin...Hi,<br /><br />I am David Anderson. Since I couldn't find any disussions regarding the case I am interested in from your blog, I figured I may just post my question in the comment. How do you think of the 1976 Tehran UFO incident? Do you have any possibile explanations for this case? Thank you.Realisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08413415104835687365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-83885334214911853742016-03-31T00:06:09.931-07:002016-03-31T00:06:09.931-07:00"Have I got this right? A case of asking for ..."Have I got this right? A case of asking for the money up front for something the author suspects nobody really wants. Clever salesmanship?"<br /><br />Gosh, this reminds me of Mexico City...step right up folks and buy your advance tickets to the event of the millenium - Alien's in slides!<br /><br />I think Vallee must be getting old....Brian Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201018843054563257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-62609045341026927362016-03-25T19:57:12.280-07:002016-03-25T19:57:12.280-07:00My, aren't we feeling grouchy today, Count Ott...My, aren't we feeling grouchy today, Count Otto?<br /><br />The main purpose is not to save hundreds of credulous fools $220 each. The purpose is to be able to show "to science," when Vallee presents his masterpiece "to science," that this ain't science.that Robert Sheafferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15324537021429419111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-33181855257803367242016-03-25T19:51:41.002-07:002016-03-25T19:51:41.002-07:00I would suspect that the promotion of this 'de...I would suspect that the promotion of this 'deluxe collectors edition' is more of an ego-trip for Vallee, than a serious attempt to earn cash. Even if 500 copies are subscribed at $220 each, that is still only $110,000 - small change for a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist. Robert Sheafferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15324537021429419111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-9649219080040457742016-03-25T16:18:56.099-07:002016-03-25T16:18:56.099-07:00Do I understand this right? Jaques Vallee was ask...Do I understand this right? Jaques Vallee was asking for money to cover the costs of publishing/printing a revised copy of a book he had written a few years earlier. Presumably those who contributed would then be given a free copy of the book (assuming it was published at all).<br /><br />The usual way of going about this is to publish the book first, if you can afford to, and THEN sell it to whoever wants it. Vallee seems to have done things in reverse. Ask for the money from the very people who want the book, get it printed using the donated money, then give it free to these same people, after selling whatever copies he can sell to those who have NOT donated.<br /><br />Have I got this right? A case of asking for the money up front for something the author suspects nobody really wants. Clever salesmanship?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />cdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01005702597775594084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-67657333653979974342016-03-25T15:25:17.076-07:002016-03-25T15:25:17.076-07:00Does this brand of "skepticism" really s...Does this brand of "skepticism" really serve any useful purpose? Vallée can't sell his shoddily written, vastly overpriced book even by standing in front of a large crowd of the very people you'd think would be his ideal target demographic and practically begging them to buy it! Who, exactly, needs to be solemnly told, at great length and in obsessive-compulsive technical detail, that detain very specific factoids in it might not be altogether true so maybe it's not worth buying, when almost nobody in the entire world is going to buy it anyway?<br /><br />Obviously those bitterly vindictive ultra-skeptics who give the whole movement a public image somewhere between Asperger's Syndrome and rabies love this sort of nit-picking point-scoring against tired old heretics who ceased to matter a long time ago, but seriously, why bother?Count Otto Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13915670684585417091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104600450225406597.post-38934022398943786762016-03-25T09:21:41.351-07:002016-03-25T09:21:41.351-07:00Good Work!
>> Vallee said at the UFO Congre...Good Work!<br /><br />>> Vallee said at the UFO Congress that this revised, deluxe book would be something he could present "to science" to show them that the study of UFOs must be taken seriously.<<<br /><br />Oh, that is a hoot!<br /><br />While he, Vallee, fifty years after Frank Edwards, is still misrepresenting Ezekiel's vision of his god at the center of a multicyclic Babylonian cosmology as a literal "flying saucer," even an "abduction" experience!<br /><br />That's some kind of "science." Not the "New Kind," but the same old <i>pseudoscience</i> we've been hearing for decades. Give it up already, Jacques! We know it's all about the money and nothing else. Don't insult us by pretending otherwise.zoamchomskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519698426338891542noreply@blogger.com