Alright.
Call your local MUFON office and ask them if this thread has hurt their research.
Go to wal-mart and pick a random person and ask them if they believe in aliens. If they say no, ask them if it's because of this thread. Take it a
step further and ask if it's because of anything posted on ATS.
The truth is that if you think there is something to conspiracies then you will research and make up your own mind. If you think CTers are loons
because that's what you been told then you won't know about what is being said.
It doesn't matter what is said because the counter-intelligence operation was successful. Being thought of as a fool is a strong deterrent for
people not secure with themselves and their convictions.
The fact remains that nothing said on ATS is going to make someone that is serious about the research suddenly stop. No matter which way you look at
it this site is nothing more than a forum for everyone to talk about stuff they probably wouldn't talk about in public.
No one that thinks CTers are fools is reading this website. And if they do it's only to reinforce their own closed mind. It's not doing the
research any harm.
That excuse does not work. Please use some logic instead of repeating an invalid excuse that you read from someone else. I know you didn't come up
with that excuse yourself. You just feel better about yourself when you can call people fools and you are using an illogical excuse in order to do
that. Be truthful with yourself for once. You want to feel you're a part of a group by calling yourself a skeptic and feel you are taking the high
ground and protecting serious research. It's transparent. It's obvious. Lying to yourself doesn't make it any less obvious.
C'mon get real
foools like these
BOO HOO
yada yada
very convenient answer
OWWW MY HEAD HURTS
These are not adequate ways of expressing your point and that's why I call it transparent. These are emotional triggers.
It's fine if you truly believe threads on ATS are hurting research. But that's a claim without evidence. And you know what they say about claims
without evidence.
Show us the proof of your claims. Bring the evidence. Prove to everyone that threads like this and posters that make them are hurting research.
All that said, I'm not saying to stop believing in what you say. Or to stop posting on threads to express your opinion. I disagree with anyone that
says that. But I also disagree with repeatedly calling people fools and repeating the same thing over and over. It's not helping the research.