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- Subject: Face On Mars
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- Date: 28 Dec 94 21:39:00 GMT
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- > It depends on the message. I believe Dr. Mack is totally
- > misleading in every way because what he is producing has
- > nothing to do with him being a psychiatrist. It has
- > everything to do with his spiritual belief. I can well
- > understand why he is embarrassment to his profession.
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- First of all let me state that I am only about half way through the
- book, so that caveat may come into play here. Perhaps I will change
- my position radicaally when I have completed it.
- Second, (and this is an interesting position for a born agin
- Agnostic to take) his religious beliefs should not neccesarily be
- held aagainst him, and I do not believe that it is unfair that he
- touts his psychiatric expertise in the books discussions. Perhaps
- he would have been more widely received had he torn apart the
- possibility of extraterrestrial cause and effect and then been
- dragged unwillingly to the conclussion that SOMETHING must be there.
- I agree that the book was NOT about the total conversion of a
- disbeliever, neither was it advocacy based on nothing but faith.
- What it is so far is a rendition of a trained psychiatric observer
- of a number of patients, a somewhat muted consideration of
- alternatives, and more than anything else, a detailing of some
- rather significant commonalities which are remarkable regardless of
- their cause. (Again I reserve the right to revise and extend my
- commnets upon finishing the book.) My point on this thread,
- however, was not
- regarding Mark, but rather the apparent dual standard here, where
- someone who is biased towards an extraterrestrial explanation, by
- whatever cause is held to a higher standard than those biased
- againts an extraterrestrial cause, by whatever standard. (I.E. Carl
- Sagan's tirades). As it is widely accepted that general disproving
- a negative is tougher than proving a positive, both of these types
- should still be held to the same standard. If it ain't proven, it
- ain't proven but that don't mean it ain't. (Pardon my
- colloquialisms.)
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