R. Lee
Articles by R. Lee
April 19, 2009
Why is the story of a new law requiring vintage children's books (pre-1985) to be pulled from shelves and on-line bookstores so woefully under reported?
November 02, 2008
Why does the skeptic-debunker James Randi discussion forum have over thirty-five separate threads on the non-existence of Bigfoot?
August 22, 2008
Bigfoot debunkers need to settle down. The sad "Dead Bigfoot in a freezer" hoax only proves that there are indeed idiots in the world, but it doesn't prove that there is no Bigfoot.
July 23, 2008
UFO debunkers continue to distract us away from the UFO issue by asking "Why is it that all UFO photographs are blurry and grainy?" The fact is, there are plenty of good UFO images, and they know it.
May 16, 2008
Full disclosure on UFOs from the government -- any government -- will never happen.
November 23, 2007
What is it about those who pathologically debunk just for the hell of it? . . .
We were watching Monster Quest: Birdzilla! last night, when my husband “George” said to me, “Why do some people have this obsessive need to debunk, just for the hell of debunking?”
In particular, George was refer...
September 11, 2007
I came across the comment recently in an article somewhere; the writer remarked that a reported UFO wasn’t really a “real” UFO. Whatever that means. Did it turn out to be an IFO? (Identified Flying Object.) If so, it was still a UFO; until such time it was correctly identified. Nothing real, or unre...
July 15, 2007
The recent (July 13) Larry King program Are UFOs Real? on Roswell and UFOs had quite a panel: Roswell witnesses Jesse Marcel, Julie Shuster of the International UFO Museum and research Center in Roswell and daughter of Walter Haut. (Haut was public information officer at Roswell and was responsible...
June 20, 2007
I’ve been noticing the use of the phrase “real ufo” recently. It seems to mostly come from the skeptic milieu, which is surreally ironic, since they often don’t “believe” in ufos anyway, have strange ideas about the whole thing -- as in UFOlogy being some sort of “church” -- and are, overall, ig...
January 25, 2007
I recently wrote about a new “meme” pursued and disseminated with persistence by chronic skeptics; the idea that the term UFO really means aliens from outer space. (”A New Meme: We All Know UFO Really Means Aliens From Outer Space.”)
I’ve noticed another meme that is eagerly transmitted by ...
January 18, 2007
Deep within that niche UFO us people have found for ourselves, are those that are ‘pro’ UFO of course, and those outside looking in, who are “anti’ UFO.
I include myself in that first (really, the only niche; the anti UFO people are niche-less)) niche; that “pro UFO” category. Both groups ar...
January 08, 2007
Of course, it doesn’t. But the chronic skeptic has a new meme out there.And that’s the statement, said in a factual and somber manner, that “everyone knows UFO means extraterrestrials.”
I’ve been noticing this trend the past year or so in Chronic Skeptic World.(If you plan to visit, don’t go alo...
October 16, 2006
‘Cultural infiltration;’ more accurate and far less judgmental than the term cultural contamination. Although there is a bit of judgment and insinuation in the term cultural infiltration. Infiltration suggests an air of suspicion, sneakiness, covert activity. Still, it’s not always bad. Infiltratio...
September 10, 2006
Wandering through the kingdom of anti-UFOism on the internet, I recently came across a few sites with the same message; so-called ‘name calling’ is just as bad as using racial slurs. Labeling the anti-UFOists, skeptics and or debunkers as any of the following: skeptoid, skepti-bunkie, Skepti-bunkie,...
August 04, 2006
A Shift
After my last piece UFOs: Exo-Politics: on the D-List a poster on a UFO forum whose opinions I respect made the comment that the “powers that be” won’t allow the rest of us to get anywhere in the context of exopolitics. And recently Kyle King, on his blog UFO Reflections, made some insi...
July 24, 2006
Probably most of us are jaded about alien abductions by now. Doesn’t matter if you’re a skeptic, debunker, UFOlogoist, or everyday citizen with passing, if any, interest in the subject; we’re all used to the motif of the alien abduction that it elicits an amused -- or bemused, depending -- shrug of ...
July 14, 2006
Exo-politics:
Exopolitics is a non-academic discipline that deals with the implications of possible contact between humans and extraterrestrial civilizations. In a broader context exopolitics deals with the political implications of purported extraterrestrial-related phenomena. Critical question...
May 07, 2006
I recently wrote about the items that crop up every so often about how UFOs are dead and gone. (UFOs: Not Dead Yet.) These items are cyclic in nature, insistent in their thesis: UFOs are no longer with us. These appear despite the fact that at the same time, items appear about the latest sighting...
April 27, 2006
While in the waiting room yesterday with family members, the following took place:
Conversation today about UFOs that went like this; I mention I?ve been writing a lot about UFOs. Person makes silly flying saucer whirring noises while rolling eyes and says, laughing, ?UFOs, huh?? I say, ?yes.? ...
April 22, 2006
I?ve been following the articles and related threads on-line that insist UFOlogy is dead. Dead, dead, dead. UFO sightings are down. Barely any reports of UFOs come in anymore. Interest in the topic has waned; no one cares. UFO reporting bureaus have shut down, publications have ceased, and it?s all ...