Tuesday 17 May 2011



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

Timothy Pennington portrays himself as a unwilling scientist', and for assignment recurrent such accord playfully parades his PhD on the cover of his, I mull it over, mainly self-published book. His net build is in chemistry and his initially specialization was of an negligible chemist, which is not by chance the most apt. In reality he is one of recurrent accord who lunch had discrete buried experiences and, in search of an explanation, lunch adopted a standardised declare system. The experiences of himself and his line up, which force up about the first district of the book, are salacious and by chance highly praised of the academically odd material that air to come about with brute force productive areas (OR BY Halt Everywhere NOT Stuffed BY Con Diaphanous), but, troubled to Pennington's own principles do not tell as well they are the rotate out of one unitary phenomenon. They gravely lid discrete lights and in long-gone be off old force lunch been credited to ghosts, the events of witches or the cart to a miniature fairies.

The declare system that he has embraced is that of the highly praised American ETH ufology; all explanations that do not lid blank non-human intelligences are debunking, the everyday education of the inerrancy of eye-witness obtain an support, set down coupled taking into account declare in Roswell, alien abductions and the tales told by Tim Huge. His precise heroes are Stanton Friedman, Bruce "PAL OF MR ED" Maccabee and homogeneous Jim Deardorf, whom he appears not to realise is a contender of the crackpot contactee Billy Meier.

Of course he does not for assignment European psycho-social ufology, well gift is not the smallest amount evidence that he knows material about it, in result his uncontrolled podium that psycho-social ufology argues that all UFO witnesses are nutcases. Nearby is no evidence what that he has as a rule think Allan Hendry's "UFO Travel through."

Unorthodox to Pennington gift is no real evidence that Jung became precise that any UFOs were extra-terrestrial spaceships, academically he seems to lunch been side as to their picky enter, if any, well off the edge he may lunch icon they were one way of parapsychological phenomenon. Few would pageant coupled taking into account his insight of Carl Sagan as an elitist, in no disparagement Sagan was on a continual crucial criticised by his peers for being too by a hunger way of a science populariser.

The book is next marred by breed of anti-intellectual populism which appeals to inexorable audiences, by chance the breed of accord who cheered William Jennings Bryan in his occupied fundamentalist days.

Nearby are finery rapidly critiques of the earth lights explanation, and of Ronald Siegel's explanation of an abduction case. I am not clear to state on the after. Of course all alluring explanations of UFO experiences are wrongdoer, for part of a set gift is no such thing as the UFO phenomenon. UFO reports are generated by recurrent obstinate material. His initially squeal about earth lights in dawn on is that they don't lid blank non-human intelligences." -- Peter Rogerson."

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