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| | The Official Graham Hancock Website: Forum |
 | | The trick for the debunker is to take Occam's Razor and use it not as a handy rule of thumb to aid critical thinking, but instead to impose it as a literal and immutable law of the universe which immediately destroys your opponent's arguments. | | | Why not try 'debunking', which seems to be growing in popularity and requires little except a narrow viewpoint and a handful of faulty arguments. | | | As such, some might reprimand me for writing this short article, seeing it as a hazard to the serious debunker's faith in themselves - little chance of this however, as the real top-notch debunkers have a force-field of ignorance that is nigh impenetrable. |
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| | The American Muckraker: 12/01/2004 - 12/31/2004 |
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| | The Alien Jigsaw: Debunker's Tactics |
| | On the other hand, debunkers use these frequently, especially when logic and reason seem to be failing the aim of destruction. | | | A skeptic is truly looking for the truth of the matter, whereas the debunker already "knows" the truth. | | | A debunker exposes or ridicules a false or mistaken belief. |
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| | The Truth About UFOlogy and Debunking |
| | UFOlogical myths, even when revealed to be such by UFOlogists, will not be accepted as being debunked by everyone in the UFOlogical community. | | | One can quote Peter Brookesmith in regards to Roswell and apply it throughout UFOlogy, "...the more UFOlogists barricade themselves within the stockade of Roswell, the less credible will be their entire position when their little wooden fort is overrun" (Brookesmith 122). | | | This is not the case and as each "classic" is questioned, and possibly explained, the louder the battle cry of "debunker" is used in order to drown out the voices of reason. |
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| | Debunking Planet X - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum |
| | While I never considered myself a debunker, I feel that I am one of the people lumped under this label because I am a non-believer. | | | [Note: debunkers state the public should listen to them for the truth, then demonstrate repeatedly that they are liars, and for no good reason.] | | | I've been labelled as a debunker many times when really all I do is show faults in the credibility of people that claim to have Planet X evidence. |
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| | National Debunker |
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| | Al Bielek Debunker Replies to Michael Relfe |
| | Over the years I have had many encounters with people who spend their time and energy "debunking" people like Al Bielek. | | | I doubt if you will convince many people. |
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| | Debunker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Abraham Kovoor was a Sri Lankan professor known for exposing the prominent Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba. | | | Many debunkers are rather controversial because they have strong opinions and can be vocal about things which may offend people, such as religion and what they label pseudosciences. | | | The term debunk originated in 1923, when American novelist William Woodward (1874-1950) used it to mean to "take the bunk out of things." |
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| | MetroActive Features The Debunker |
| | FROM RYAN'S PLUSH OFFICE we head up Branciforte to the Mystery Spot, where the trees are fragrant, the hills are steep and the houses are crooked. | | | As she says with a laugh, "I've heard the same lecture on astrology for 30 years." | | | Cabrillo College skeptic and debunker looks for the good and the bad in some of Santa Cruz County's favorite pastimes |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/11.26.97/debunker-9748.html
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| | newswire: Vatican appoints official Da Vinci Code debunker |
| | Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Archbishop of Genoa and a possible successor to the Pope, has been appointed by the Vatican to rebut what the Catholic church calls the "shameful and unfounded errors" contained within The Da Vinci Code. | | | A spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said that they had no plans for any similar 'debunking' initiatives. | | | And now it has become the first book ever to have an archbishop dedicated to debunking its contents. |
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| | sciforums.com - UfO's Created the Debunker |
| | In the search for truth, they are the passionate know it alls, who are there to enlighten you. | | | In the search for truth, they are the passionate know it alls, | | | Until the 1950's there was no such thing as the Debunker. |
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| | NoSpinDebunker18_ |
| | Not many rules: just send a quality piece debunking some business idiocy that you’ve encountered. | | | My debunkers are not everyone’s cup of tea. | | | Three people (now out of a few hundred NoSpin debunker readers) in 11 weeks have asked me to remove their names from my weekly mailing. |
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http://www.nospinmarketing.com/2001Debunkers/DebunkerJuly23_01.htm
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| | Review of The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal by Gordon Stein |
| | It gives a good representation of the debunkers’ positions, and it shows how they see themselves and their mission. | | | Three were his students; most of the rest are mentioned only as a citation, with little (usually no) indication of who they are, what they did, or their institutional affiliations. | | | To his credit, he realized that the material is important, and he spent a significant part of his life addressing it. |
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| | Re: 'The Debunkers' Last Stand or Good Riddance to Bad Bad Debunker Rubbish |
| | Rich, the post was from a critter well known to those who read alt.support.attn-deficit. | | | However, > > it needs to be said, this is NOT the argument being proposed on these > > newsgroups. | | | This thread title clearly demonstrates the lengths debunkers > > will go to deceive us, and the plain fact that debunkers create their own > > arguments to knock down the one of their opponents without *ever* having > > to confront the FACTS of the actual argument. |
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http://www.talkaboutsupport.com/group/alt.support/messages/18793.html
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| | The Debunker's Domain, by Robert Sheaffer. Skeptical resources on UFOs, the "paranormal," feminist "scholarship" |
| | I have also been a member of Mensa for over ten years. | | | I'm an equal-opportunity debunker, refuting whatever nonsense, in my judgment, stands in the greatest need of refuting, no matter from what source it may come, no matter how privileged, esteemed, or sacrosanct. | | | Remember: a thing cannot be "debunked" unless it is filled with bunk to begin with! |
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| | Web-myth debunker's life threatened by Steve Gibson Groupie The Register |
| | Sony digital boss - rootkit ignorance is bliss | | | Science is all rubbish, let's go live in caves | | | Techno-myth debunker Rob Rosenberger has received a death threat as a reward for his efforts to expose GRC.com founder Steve Gibson's recent rants on the Win-XP raw-socket terror for the rubbish that they are. |
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| | Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices |
| | It gives me faith that probability assumptions can be validated and useful, but you have to look at them case by case." | | | In the mid-1970s, the upstart statistician exposed some key problems in ESP research and debunked a handful of famed psychics. | | | In 1962, the then 17-year-old sought to stymie a Caribbean casino that was allegedly using shaved dice to boost house odds in games of chance. |
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| | Joho the Blog: Jerry the Debunker |
| | Posted by D. Weinberger at October 3, 2002 10:22 AM Post a comment | | | The estimable Jerry Michalski has started a wiki (= gang-edit) page to debunk "common sense" misunderstandings such as that good fences make good neighbors and that "My country right or wrong" means you should support your country when it's doing what's wrong. | | | Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style) |
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| | Jack Kelly: Debunker mentality |
| | All maintain to this day that the meeting took place. | | | So debunking evidence of ties between Iraq and al-Qaida has become an urgent task for anti-warriors. | | | In the current issue of Vanity Fair, David Rose reports that a special intelligence unit in the Pentagon has found nearly 100 separate examples of Iraq/al-Qaida cooperation going back to 1992. |
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| | Harry Houdini was a well known debunker of fake mediums and spiritualists |
| | He set up a code with his wife Bess, who faithfully attended the annual seances and awaited his return for 10 years, after which time she gave up. | | | When he discovered she was either genuine or too clever a fraud for him to debunk he attempted to frame her on a number of occasions. | | | His interest began after the death of his mother, Cecilia Weiss. |
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| | Skeptics, Debunkers and Believers |
| | The term “debunker” is often taken as a negative word, perhaps best personified by orangutan scientist-theologian Dr. Zaius in “Planet of the Apes.” But there’s nothing wrong with being a debunker as long as the debunker can back up his or her claims. | | | As researcher Daniel Drasin aptly notes in “Zen and the Art of Debunkery,” “extraordinary” is an essentially emotional word, not any sort of qualitative objective standard. | | | This is inevitable, as Klass’ self-stated maxim is that all UFO reports can be attributed to prosaic causes. |
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| | DebunkerWeb.html |
| | Why There Are UFO "Debunkers" - Why There Are UFO "Debunkers". | | | Debunker Donald Menzel first called it an illusion caused by a... | | | during World War II and a NACA chairman) was a known UFO debunker throughout his life... |
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| | Now A Debunker Calls Mexican UFOs Flares! |
| | Once you remove vital details from an account to make it fit your views, that's what you are doing, lying. | | | It was with great amusement I have read Michael Shermer's interview with CNN about the Mexican UFO incident....but I guess after all, people like him make a living out of debunking and "skepticism". | | | And I think either these are actual objects that are being misinterpreted or faked objects that are being exploited for people's belief in UFOs. |
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| | Alien-UFOs.com Network Forum - Debunker Debunked |
| | A true skeptic keeps his or her mind open to a truly anomalous cause but does not (or should not) allow "belief" or "disbelief" to factor into their evaluation of the event. | | | Debunkers go in with their minds made up that all UFO sightings are identifiable in prosaic terms. | | | We are accused of being debunkers by believers. |
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| | And now: the three Golden rules of the debunker: 1) Attack the person not the evidence. | | | Thank you Stanton Friedman for all you have contributed to discovering the real truth. | | | First "deny" there is anything there, when that fails, go to "dispute" the facts, then as a last resort "debunk" everything. |
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| | Scientology --- THE GREAT DEBUNKER, JAMES RANDI: Debunking Seeing Without Sight |
| | Charlatans, fakirs, mystics, and dreamers alike, they are all too aware that James Randi's meticulously-devised tests can destroy their reputations, such as they are, and make fools of them all. | | | For many years, as a master debunker of the paranormal, Randi had offered $1,000 and then $10,000 to anyone who could, in a test agreed upon by both Randi and the challenger, prove supernatural powers. | | | But five years ago, a wealthy Internet entrepreneur and admirer of Randi called and said, in effect, "Ten thousand simply doesn't cut it these days." He promptly dispatched a million dollars to Randi's foundation, which purchased negotiable bonds and placed them in a special account where they await the first successful challenger. |
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| | Gerard Holmgren: Debunking Conspiracy Theorists |
| | However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so-called evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. | | | These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. | | | Eventually, when they have turned full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog, they then re-invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus beginning the circle once more. |
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| | America's Most Aggressive Debunker of Legitimate Scientific Research |
| | Industry-funded ACSH is the most aggressive debunker of pesky research reports emanating from government and academia. | | | Meet America's most aggressive debunker of legitimate scientific research. | | | America's Most Aggressive Debunker of Legitimate Scientific Research |
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| | Famous "Conspiracies" - Debunker.com - |
| | Typically, conspiracists cannot agree who the secret rulers are, what they are doing, and what their aims may be. | | | But conspiracists seldom debunk each other (even though if A is correct, then B, C, and all the others must be wrong): instead, they reserve their scorn for those who deny that the human race is little better off than puppets on strings, unaware of the actions of the puppetmaster. | | | The New Mexicans for Science and Reason have an excellent page debunking "chemtrail" claims. |
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| | Debunking Guidelines: How to be a Debunker |
| | debunked just about everything we take for granted in today's world, and also to Nicolo Machiavelli, without whose inspiration this presentation might have been unnecessary. | | | super-secret-ingredient swamp-gas (please debunkers, only where there are | | | Last but not least-A UFO debunkers "Scientific Research Methods" |
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| | Debunker Mentality |
| | Find yourself a black cat, ride to the 13th floor and debunk some myths for yourself. | | | Still, FSGP have devised games showing how these beliefs began: How about Pin the Tail on the Ass-trologer, or smashing a Leprechaun piñata? |
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| | Walter McCrone, Debunker of Legends, Dies at 86 |
| | Walter C. McCrone, a chemical analyst who used his microscope to conclude that the Shroud of Turin never enveloped the body of Jesus and that a famous ancient map belonging to Yale University is probably a fake, died on July 10 in Chicago, long his hometown. | | | To see more documents/articles regarding this group/organization/subject click here. | | | Walter McCrone, Debunker of Legends, Dies at 86 |
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| | Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition & Other Confusions of Our Time |
| | For instance, even though he agrees with much of the objectivist philosophy, he shows how the actual movement took on a life of its own which puts some orthodox objectivists in a situation where they practice what they preach against. | | | Shermer is not afraid to debunk anyone or anything--even if it is something he partially believes in. | | | The concept of 'memes' or mental viruses comes into play here although I don't think Shermer ever uses these terms. |
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| | The Race Man's Debunker |
| | As a race man, you will be faced with several persistant arguments which require some significant efforts to debunk single-handedly. | | | With that in mind I offer you the following resources in order to aid your shooting down racial mythologies. | | | Instead of being proactive, you may find it necessary to hunker down in a bunker. |
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| | The Encyclopedia Frobozzica |
| | , greatest of the modern philosophers, was a popular debunker of Brogmoidism, and other strange religious sects. | | | For instance, he is fond of asking, "If a giant Brogmoid were holding up the world, where would he stand?" |
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| | VegSource Article |
| | This is the sorry end-point of his myth-making "debunking": promoting the demonstrably fallacious myth that only animal products provide reliable and absorbable sources of B12 in order to persuade people to abandon an ethical and at its best exceedingly healthful vegan diet. | | | He scores the odd hit, as vegetarians are not exempt from saying foolish things, but on the whole his efforts at "debunking" are ill founded and create larger and more dangerous myths than those he sets out to demolish. | | | I have taken just one example - vitamin B12 - to illustrate how he replaces one myth with another. |
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| | ::debunker: 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004:: |
| | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | Go to the site, or go directly to the live stream. | | | USATODAY.com - The debate's over: Globe is warming |
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| | theFolklorist.com-Recommended Reading |
| | Many of us have heard the story of the man who caused an explosion when he dropped his lighted cigarette into the toilet, not knowing that his wife had squirted hair spray there moments earlier. | | | And "The Criminal Mind" features both brilliant --if they were real --scams, as well as the purported antics of the less mentally gifted. | | | Whether you want to become an expert debunker or just have plenty of laughs, this book will surprise and entertain you. |
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| | Boing Boing: Penn and Teller's debunker hour |
| | Penn and Teller will be doing a Showtime programme, where they go around and debunk con-men, fake-ass faith-healers, and so on. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Debunker of global warming found guilty of scientific dishonesty |
| | Debunker of global warming found guilty of scientific dishonesty | | | Professor Lomborg, whose work has been championed in the international press, was subject to a year-long investigation by the Danish committee on scientific dishonesty. | | | Bjorn Lomborg - the director of Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute and a leading would-be debunker of mainstream scientific opinion on issues like global warming and overuse of natural resources - has been found guilty by a Danish government committee of "scientific dishonesty". |
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| | A Skeptic/Debunker Response to UFOs |
| | It is even more easy to attack those findings in any way possible to help bolster the claim that the UFOlogists are nothing more than closed minded individuals and incorrect in their findings. | | | As open minded researchers of the UFO phenomenon with enough built in skepticism to keep us from, as Dr. Maccabee puts it, "throwing out the baby with the bathwater", we at OUFOR ask that you indeed be skeptical of the Skeptic. | | | The irony and reality of it is that the keeper of the closed mind belongs to the professional skeptic whose goal is to debunk at any cost. |
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| | Debunker Attacks WTC 7 Evidence on MSNBC's Countdown |
| | Tuesday's MSNBC 'Countdown With Keith Olbermann' show featured a professor who sought to debunk the fact that Building 7 was demolished artificially by explosives. | | | Debunker Attacks WTC 7 Evidence on MSNBC's Countdown | | | E mail your comment on this article to prisonplanetweb@hotmail.com and have it posted here. |
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| | Philip Klass, 85, Dies; Aviation Journalist, UFO Debunker |
| | An asteroid discovered in 1983 was named in his honor. | | | Klass wrote about extraterrestrial issues in his own Skeptics UFO Newsletter and appeared on talk shows and lectured widely. | | | He designed and built animated electronic battle displays used by the National Park Service at the Gettysburg and Antietam battlefields. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions: ... |
| | There have been many books debunking popular myths and delusions, starting in 1957 with Martin Gardner's "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science" and including the more recent 2002 "The Disinformation Cycle" by this reviewer. | | | For example, individuals like Carroll used to debunk the myth of Vitamin C assisting the fight agains the common cold, only to remain oddly silent when more complete research found a link between Vitamin C and cold recovery. | | | And there is no shortage of useful (i.e., skeptical) dictionaries, including my own 2002 "Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology", James Randi's 1997 "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural", and Michael Shermer and Pat Linse's 2002 "The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience." "The Skeptic's Dictionary" is the newest. |
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| | Catherine Seipp on Snopes.com on National Review Online |
| | Mikkelson points out on the website that drug-stuffed dead babies stories are so common in Miami that Edna Buchanan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former Miami Herald crime reporter, made a point of debunking it in The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, her collection of police beat pieces just reissued in paperback. |
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| | American Atheists - Daniel In The Debunker's Den |
| | ACTION AFFILIATION ATHEISM BLOG CABLE TV SHOW CHRISTIANITY COMING OUT CONTACT US COURTHOUSE EVOLUTION/ CREATIONISM FAQs ISLAM and KORAN LAWSUITS LEGAL UPDATE LINK TO US LOCAL GROUPS MAGAZINE MEMBERSHIP PRESS REL. | | | Since I have not had access to the cuneiform records, I have had to draw upon the work of S. Driver mentioned above. | | | American Atheists - Daniel In The Debunker's Den |
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| | ukskeptic: Noted UFO debunker Klass dies at 85 |
| | ukskeptic: Noted UFO debunker Klass dies at 85 | | | Philip J. Klass spent a 50-year career meticulously researching stories on the latest in aviation technology as a senior editor for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. |
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| | Paranormal Magazine: Philip J. Klass, Leading Debunker of UFOs, Dies at 85 |
| | He was an electrical engineer by training, and also a journalist, but he is best known as a leading debunker of UFOs. | | | Philip J. Klass, Leading Debunker of UFOs, Dies at 85 | | | Leading skeptic and debunker of UFO phenomena, Philip J. Klass, died August 9th in a nursing home in Cocoa, Florida, of cancer. |
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| | eBook Security Debunker Arrested by Feds [Free Republic] |
| | Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. | | | eBook Security Debunker Arrested by Feds [Free Republic] |
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