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>>Mr. Klass is former Avionics Editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology
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Magazine, and widely recognized as the world's foremost UFO debunker.
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Although I am really much too busy working on my new book on "UFO
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abductions," and my assignments for Aviation Week & Space Technology
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magazine, I chanced to note your pernicious comment that you "envision in
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the near future bumper stickers that say, `Kill a Believer for CSICOP.'"
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What a dreadfully inaccurate comment from one who has attended a
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CSICOP conference, where the "believers" are invited to present their
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views -- in striking contrast to MUFON conferences. (At the recent first
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general meeting of the National Capital Area Skeptics, Dr. Bruce Maccabee
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was invited to present the pro-UFO side of `UFO-abductions' and given
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equal time to my own. Did he invite me to speak at his FUFOR sponsored
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MUFON conference later this month??)
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As for your lament, "Ufology: After 40 Years, Still No Respect," the
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same lament has been voiced by The Flat Earth Society, by those who
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believe in "ancient astronauts," in ghosts and poltergeist -- and was
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earlier voiced by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when organized science
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showed no interest in his photos and tales of fairies (the tiny variety).
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The explanation is simple: The world's leading scientists are dum-
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dums, which explains why our scientific knowledge has not advanced one
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iota in the past 100 years!!!!!
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If world-reknown [sic] scientists fail to be impressed by the evid-
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ence that you and other UFOlogists find so impressive, then clearly it is
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"they" and not you who are at fault. And "they" would be more open-minded
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if it were not for the tiny handful of skeptics, such as Klass, Sheaffer,
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and Oberg. Why is it that Hynek, McDonald, Maccabee, Sturrock, Westrum,
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Truzzi, etc., all with Ph.D.'s, were/are not able to overcome the negativ-
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ism of a tiny handful of skeptics without such academic pedigrees?
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It never once occurs to UFO-proponents like yourself that perhaps--
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perhaps--there is no UFO evidence that the world's great scientific minds
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find impressive. That it is only impressive to those who have an overwhelm-
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ing desire to believe, to the credulous and gullible.
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But be of good cheer, at age 67 I do not have many more years ahead,
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and Sheaffer and Oberg in time will pass. Then, with the three of us gone--
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at long last the world's great scientists will "see the light" about UFOs.
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And, for the first time, the cultists will have been proven right, and the
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world's great scientific minds will admit they were wrong.
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