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Originally posted by jokei
In the spirit of the OP, although I'm idly amused by the bickering...
No one has mentioned the biggest all time Hoaxster/Fraudster/Con Artist of them all, Ladies and Gentlemen I present you:
L Ron Hubbard.
Originally posted by Jay-morris
Originally posted by boredsilly
Stanton Friedman should not be on that list. I've always found him to be an excellent researcher.
There is a few on this list that should not be on here.
Originally posted by OrionHunterX- Richard Dolan, author of UFO documentation books putting out the propaganda that the National Security community has been "concerned" about the UFO presence for decades.
Originally posted by RICH-ENGLAND
reply to post by OrionHunterX
hi there, you may want to add wayne herschel (author of the hidden records) , and judy faltskog aka judith helena van greunen aka james van greunen (responsible for various ufo/alien signal hoaxes) to your list of charlatans.
we have covered them in this thread: www.abovetopsecret.com...
thanks
rich
Originally posted by OrionHunterX
- "Dan Burisch", a hoaxster who pretends to have worked at Area 51.
Originally posted by Aliensun
Carl Sagan would get the prize award for best con.
May 14, 2000 ... Air Force Had Plans to Nuke Moon posted: 11:16 am ET 14 May 2000 ... the team researching the hypothetical explosion was a young Carl Sagan, ...
Originally posted by mblahnikluver
Do you have any proof that these are all con-artists?
Originally posted by boredsilly
Stanton Friedman should not be on that list. I've always found him to be an excellent researcher.
Originally posted by Mclaneinc
Wow, No Jamie on the list...
A list without Jamie is no list at all
Not sure I agree on Stanton though.
Originally posted by Turiddu
The anti-Carl Sagan attitudes being shown by certain members in this tread are pretty pathetic (and desperate if you ask me). Dr. Sagan did more to advance the scientific fields Ufologists claim to represent more than anyone else in the past 50 years. Anyone who truly wants to speculate scientifically on the idea of life in the Universe owes Dr. Sagan an enormous debt.
So Carl Sagan can speculate on wild Alien life forms on Jupiter and its okay... but anyone else speculates on "Lifeforms on Jupiter" and they are 'nut cases and charlatans'?
Originally posted by Romekje
So you are actually telling me that you just debunked Sitchin, his lifetime research, and his gala of books written about a history written by people over 6000 years ago in a language you can't even dream of starting to understand, a language only 200 people on this planet can read?
Nobody even TRIED to debunk him because nobody CAN