OT: My UFO Encounter.. (True Story)

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But extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. And scepticism coupled with the scientific method is
the essential foundation for scientific progress - and is the only real bulwark we humans have against our irrational urges to believe all sorts of wacky things.

That is why Mulder was always wrong in the X-Files. When a person "wants to beleive" something, then their claims that something extraordinary is true are a lot harder to swallow, since they don't generally hold their theses to rigorous standards of proof.

Ok, I'm trying to get off my soapbox.

Oh, one Last thing: Yay for James Randi!

Alarik

EDIT: like a total stoopid head, I wrote "uri geller" when I meant "james randi" - polar opposites. I had a brain fart.

Gandalf Parker said:

A lot of people make fake money. Its pretty close, fools a lot of people, then something really tiny is spotted which makes it a fake. That doesnt make me consider all money a fake, especially the ones without the little tell-tales of fakeness. It does make me think that any money I see MIGHT be a fake and hsould maybe be checked out.

Fanaticism is always bad. In this case I would have to say that both extreme belief and extreme disbelief is probably too early to be preaching it.