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	<title>Comments on: When scam skeptics need debunking &#8211; their tin foil hat is showing</title>
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		<title>By: Robert Worstell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Worstell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Skepacabra: And thank you for replying. But perhaps some need that &quot;invisible dragon&quot; to ease their passage through life. Certainly a couple hundred bucks for a CD set isn&#039;t the same as some of the Utah Internet Coaching scammers who are raking in over  $6000 per elderly boomer they drop-kick into debt they can never pay off - for a &lt;em&gt;sure-fire&lt;/em&gt; business opportunity which never delivers.

I don&#039;t know that you&#039;ve ever been the butt of a real scam, or actually helped people to get their refund. I have and I know many who continue to do as I do. Saying something is unscientific bunk is itself a &quot;scam&quot; - when it hurts no one, but helps many.  And that is where many dialectic materialist &quot;scientists&quot; hold anything spiritual as a scam - because it doesn&#039;t fit their extremely narrow mindset. Like that video you had on who honestly believed Al Gore&#039;s fiction on Global Warming was real and actual. - their own invisible dragon, or Great Pumpkin.

My point is that it is too easy to criticize someone else, even when they hold that simple belief that &quot;doilies on the furniture help keep it cleaner&quot; makes their life easier - and it&#039;s too easy to tell them there is no scientific basis for any belief, much less doilies. 

Which might be the issue I really took with your site - but if tearing apart harmless belief-systems helps you live life, then perhaps the over-wrought protests are needed. Hyper-criticism met with hyper-protest - does anyone win if nothing is served by the contest?

But otherwise, your site is quite amusing. Keep up the good work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Skepacabra: And thank you for replying. But perhaps some need that &#8220;invisible dragon&#8221; to ease their passage through life. Certainly a couple hundred bucks for a CD set isn&#8217;t the same as some of the Utah Internet Coaching scammers who are raking in over  $6000 per elderly boomer they drop-kick into debt they can never pay off &#8211; for a <em>sure-fire</em> business opportunity which never delivers.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know that you&#8217;ve ever been the butt of a real scam, or actually helped people to get their refund. I have and I know many who continue to do as I do. Saying something is unscientific bunk is itself a &#8220;scam&#8221; &#8211; when it hurts no one, but helps many.  And that is where many dialectic materialist &#8220;scientists&#8221; hold anything spiritual as a scam &#8211; because it doesn&#8217;t fit their extremely narrow mindset. Like that video you had on who honestly believed Al Gore&#8217;s fiction on Global Warming was real and actual. &#8211; their own invisible dragon, or Great Pumpkin.</p>
<p>My point is that it is too easy to criticize someone else, even when they hold that simple belief that &#8220;doilies on the furniture help keep it cleaner&#8221; makes their life easier &#8211; and it&#8217;s too easy to tell them there is no scientific basis for any belief, much less doilies. </p>
<p>Which might be the issue I really took with your site &#8211; but if tearing apart harmless belief-systems helps you live life, then perhaps the over-wrought protests are needed. Hyper-criticism met with hyper-protest &#8211; does anyone win if nothing is served by the contest?</p>
<p>But otherwise, your site is quite amusing. Keep up the good work.</p>
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		<title>By: Skepacabra</title>
		<link>http://robertworstell.com/lifestyle-choice/scam-skeptics-debunking-tin-hat-showing/comment-page-1/#comment-218</link>
		<dc:creator>Skepacabra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Methinks you protest too much. While there are certainly claims that need to be taken seriously and require time-intensive scientific inquiry, many are just too silly to even entertain or warrant anything more than ridicule, especially since we live in a world where often the mere fact that scientists have seriously investigated a particular claim at all, regardless of their conclusions, can be exploited by scam artists and true believers to justify their nonsense (See: Project Stargate). What can be asserted without evidence can be just as easily dismissed without evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. 

The day the Quantum Jumping people (who incidentally reveal immediately to not even understanding what &quot;quantum&quot; even means) get published in a reputable peer-reviewed journal and the consensus of experts in related fields embrace their amazing technology, I&#039;ll begin to take them seriously. Until then, they might as well be claiming the existence of Santa Claus, Russell&#039;s Celestial Teapot, the invisible dragon in Carl Sagan&#039;s garage, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. 

&quot;Ridicule is he only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.&quot;
-Thomas Jefferson</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Methinks you protest too much. While there are certainly claims that need to be taken seriously and require time-intensive scientific inquiry, many are just too silly to even entertain or warrant anything more than ridicule, especially since we live in a world where often the mere fact that scientists have seriously investigated a particular claim at all, regardless of their conclusions, can be exploited by scam artists and true believers to justify their nonsense (See: Project Stargate). What can be asserted without evidence can be just as easily dismissed without evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. </p>
<p>The day the Quantum Jumping people (who incidentally reveal immediately to not even understanding what &#8220;quantum&#8221; even means) get published in a reputable peer-reviewed journal and the consensus of experts in related fields embrace their amazing technology, I&#8217;ll begin to take them seriously. Until then, they might as well be claiming the existence of Santa Claus, Russell&#8217;s Celestial Teapot, the invisible dragon in Carl Sagan&#8217;s garage, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. </p>
<p>&#8220;Ridicule is he only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.&#8221;<br />
-Thomas Jefferson</p>
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