Debunking in the Darkness: Throwing the Energy Baby out with the UFO Bath Water

I cracked a smile reading this

Debunkers. You know who you are and, even better, we know who you are. You’re the folks who consistently gather before an anxious public every time a UFO sighting occurs because you want to flash your impressive credentials. Because you firmly believe your professional status gives you license — lacking even the bare minimum of facts about a case — to tell people they’re only seeing meteorites or birds or balloons or clouds or sun dogs or conventional aircraft. Or unconventional conventional aircraft. Your status as self-proclaimed UFO explainers-away feels good, doesn’t it?
The evidence never matters, but it surely must feel self-inspiring to tell sighting witnesses they’re mistaken, though you have my sympathies because some of you are forced to go to the most absurd of absurd lengths to invent instantaneous explanations. The Big Guns amongst your kind unfairly pursue and destroy witness integrity in order to gain fodder for that next book condemning all things UFO.
Other debunkers, more often than not, appear in the guise of “amateur astronomers,” consulted by local media as “experts,” invariably turning out to be ill-informed about UFOs and offered before the TV cameras with gloating smirks. Besides, what’s an astronomer going to tell us about a UFO they didn’t even see, an unlikely event anyway since both professional and amateur astronomers frequently spend hours looking at a teeny-tiny fraction of the sky at any one time? And never mind that UFO history actually shines with accounts by astronomers of their own unexplained sightings.
Yet, UFO encounters continue to be reported by solid, concerned people all over the world, despite the debunkers’ efforts.

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(Full Article: http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com)

UFO Debunkers

by Patrick Cooke

A common phrase, often heard in our modern world, is “that’s a bunch of bunk”, or some variation of that phrase. The word “bunk” has become synonymous with nonsense, lies, and myth, and is even tied to the type of criminal known as the con man, also called a Bunko artist. The word has a recent etymology, being a shortened version of the word “bunkum”, which is an alternate spelling of Buncombe. In a February, 1820 session of the U.S. House of Representatives Representative Felix Walker from Buncombe County, North Carolina gave a rambling speech before that body. The speech had little relevance to the concurrent debate in the House, and Walker refused to yield the floor, informing his colleagues that his speech was not intended for Congress, but that he was “speaking for Buncombe.” It became a widely-accepted synonym in Washington for any bombastic political posturing or an oratorical display not accompanied by conviction. To “debunk” now means to expose the sham or falseness of something, thus implying that the debunker is presumed to be unmasking, poking fun at, or exposing an imposter, or something that is pure nonsense.

As a ufologist, an autonomous theologian, and social researcher, I am the target of debunkers from the broadest range of debunkers imaginable. My work reveals the cover-up of UFOs and challenges the common concepts of UFOs, it uncovers the contradictions and misconceptions of mainstream Christian doctrines and beliefs, and calls into question many social, academic, scientific, political, and historical improprieties and misinformation and disingenuousness. Early in my research I had several confrontations with James Oberg, a UFO skeptic, whose style of debunking is almost legendary. His tactics led me into a study of debunking to counter his dismissive and completely illogical points, which were almost baffling in their ability to convince others proof of UFOs was a total sham. I found, through years of experience that his tactics were very similar to those used by almost every UFO skeptic in the field. Anyone armed with the knowledge of how debunkers operate can see common threads in the way they argue their points and counter them.

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(Full article: http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0108/debunkers.html)

Who or What is a ‘Debunker’?

The following article exposes 2 types of debunkers. Follow the link to read the full article on http://www.ufoarea.com

Who or What is a ‘Debunker’?

“Anyone who vehemently and hotly denies any new ideas that threaten the status quo!

Basically there are two kinds of ‘Debunkers’: ‘Benign’ & ‘Rabid’!
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(Full article: http://www.ufoarea.com/aas_debunkers1_du.html)

Who or What is a ‘Debunker’?

The following article exposes 2 types of debunkers. Follow the link to read the full article on http://www.ufoarea.com

Who or What is a ‘Debunker’?

“Anyone who vehemently and hotly denies any new ideas that threaten the status quo!

Basically there are two kinds of ‘Debunkers’: ‘Benign’ & ‘Rabid’!
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(Full article: http://www.ufoarea.com/aas_debunkers1_du.html)