On Aug 26, 2006, at 8:01 AM, upand_at_them wrote:

>> At a quick glance this has got to be the most credible
>>  UFO site I've ever heard of.
>
> Credible?  And by that you mean what?

While Up's response was well over the "personal attack" line, this
is still a good question.  How DOES one rate the credibility of a
random web site?  A lot of Kook sites can be immediately eliminated
by including "facts" that the reader knows to be questionable or
flat-out untrue.  But without doing a lot of difficult research
(is this person really a Dr/PhD/whatever, were they ever actually
employed at the place they say - stuff covered by privacy regulations
that is hard to prove even before one gets into the technical claims),
there ought to be some standard of plausibility other than "not
obviously ridiculous."

As an example, consider Robert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad, Poor
Dad", a self-made millionaire who now goes around writing books and
doing seminars trying to educate the masses how they too can become
rich in real estate and other "wheeling and dealing."  Except, see
also http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html where that all comes into
question, INCLUDING whether the guy is actually rich in the first
place, or ever made any of his money doing the things he's advising
others to do...

BillW

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