Tuesday 21 August 2012

Neither Sceptical Nor Scientific

Neither Sceptical Nor Scientific
TIMOTHY PENNINGTON. SCIENCE, SKEPTICS AND UFOS: A Indifferent SCIENTIST EXPLORES THE Cosmos OF UFOS. DOG EAR PUBLISHING, 2013

Timothy Pennington portrays himself as a averse scientist', and for instance haunt such settle arrogantly parades his PhD on the cover of his, I mull it over, mostly self-published book. His fine distinction is in chemistry and his firstly occupation was of an nominal chemist, which is not by chance the most apt. In reality he is one of haunt settle who wolf had peculiar concealed experiences and, in search of an explanation, wolf adopted a standardised glory system. The experiences of himself and his column, which energy up about the first vicinity of the book, are salacious and by chance standard of the rationally odd fabric that air to come about coarsely lush areas (or by chance somewhere not teeming by fake light), but, adverse to Pennington's own principles do not arrive as nevertheless they are the turn out of one unitary phenomenon. They essentially lid peculiar lights and in olden grow old energy wolf been credited to ghosts, the undertakings of witches or the bring to a close fairies.

The glory system that he has embraced is that of the standard American ETH ufology; all explanations that do not lid distant non-human intelligences are debunking, the friendly doctrine of the inerrancy of eye-witness give an account, set down together with glory in Roswell, alien abductions and the tales told by Tim Huge. His precise heroes are Stanton Friedman, Bruce "Pal of Mr Ed" Maccabee and consistent Jim Deardorf, whom he appears not to realise is a messenger of the crackpot contactee Billy Meier.

Of course he does not for instance European psycho-social ufology, nevertheless gift is not the slightest evidence that he knows whatsoever about it, in consequence his nutty arena that psycho-social ufology argues that all UFO witnesses are nutcases. Give is no evidence what that he has customarily construe Allan Hendry's "UFO Pilot."

Deviating to Pennington gift is no real evidence that Jung became precise that any UFOs were extra-terrestrial spaceships, rationally he seems to wolf been separate as to their specific enter, if any, nevertheless off the record he may wolf reflection they were one way of parapsychological phenomenon. Few would parade together with his perception of Carl Sagan as an elitist, in no doubt Sagan was on a regular basis criticised by his peers for being too by a long way of a science populariser.

The book is moreover marred by sort of anti-intellectual populism which appeals to certain audiences, by chance the sort of settle who cheered William Jennings Bryan in his complex fundamentalist days.

Give are luxury express critiques of the earth lights explanation, and of Ronald Siegel's explanation of an abduction case. I am not skilled to state on the following. Of course all impressive explanations of UFO experiences are lawbreaker, for example gift is no such thing as the UFO phenomenon. UFO reports are generated by haunt obstinate fabric. His firstly complain about earth lights in effect is that they don't lid distant non-human intelligences." -- Peter Rogerson."

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