>> 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."

I think Wouter's comment was a good one:

> So the only thing that remains is your own judgement, possibly 
> extended
> by judgement of people/sites/newspapers that you judge as credible
> (which can of course expand to a 'web of trust'). But IMHO this must 
> (at
> the 'root') always be a personal thing. I can't offload this to you,
> unless (and to the extent) I trust you in the first place.

I obvious had and have severe doubts.
As the subject line indicates.

I regret Mr upandatem dying on his sword for his indiscretions on my 
behalf - I would have been happy rather to educate him re my erudition 
perspicacity, cynical approach to all UFOlogy and flat chestedness. 
That would have been a fate worse than death but, alas, he has been 
cast forth into the void to ponder his sins and whether the creation 
science PhD's were in fact correct after all ... :-)

Basically, while I suspect that said site would prove at day's end to 
not be as meaty as it seemed, in the time I spent on it it did seem to 
"hand together" better than most flaky sites. The point about him 
being a medical doctor was that he claimed higher qualifications but 
NOT your run of the mill diploma mill PhD.  Which makes him more 
liable to be honest or more than usually disingenuous.

Maybe the LGM will tell us the truth about UFO's when they finally get 
here?


        Russell




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