[ExI] goats and gullibility

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Jan 25 20:39:18 UTC 2010


On 1/25/2010 2:12 PM, John Clark wrote:

> There has even recently been a nonfiction book and movie based on that
> fact, a comedy called "Men who stare at goats".

There has been a highly fictionalized entertainment in book form by Jon 
Ronson (a very amusing writer), and an almost entirely fictionalized 
movie of that title.

> The government thought
> that if you stared at a goat in just the right way you could kill it, or
> a person.

This is untrue.

> They used your tax dollars to teach people how to do this.

This is untrue.

> It didn't work.

Since it didn't happen, it's not surprising that it didn't work.

When you get your "information" about parapsychology from such sources, 
it's hardly surprising that you think it's all BULLSHIT. What's actually 
BULLSHIT is your disgraceful research methodology.

A military remote viewer informed me when I asked him about this:

 > Jon Ronson’s book is
 > mostly disinformation. He makes many claims within his book based on
 > personal interviews he never had which are totally bogus. I’m totally
 > familiar with all of the “goat” work at Fort Bragg and it has nothing to
 > do with any psychics. They are used to teach Special Forces medics how
 > to treat gun-shot and other wounds in the field – period.


Damien Broderick






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