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Skeptical Inquirer 28:6

By Gregon

The November/December issue of Skeptical Inquirer has been released, and as usual the SI website has a number of the articles available for free:

If you buy the magazine you’ll also get articles on the plagues of Egypt, why SETI is science but ufology is not, and climate change. See the website for complete details of the latest issue.

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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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  1. Maybe Greg recalls this one …..
    Not long ago, we had a headline about a Mars Rover backing out of a crater, much as we have backed cars out of snowdrifts.

    I made a mildly funny remark about Beagle-2 and the Polar Lander, backing from their craters.

    Maybe they heard me, ok they are not trying to take off, but at least
    talk to a lander on Eros


    A death-defying comeback might be in store for NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft. The probe is now muted, quietly resting in a no-shout zone on the surface of asteroid 433 Eros.

    An attempt to reconnect with NEAR may occur at year’s end as the rocky world and Earth move into close proximity and sunlight washes over the spacecraft’s energizing solar panels.

  2. rennes le chateau
    hi greg,i find a few anomalies in this article.
    the translation…this place is terrible…is supposed to mean wonderful or awesome, but why the ghastly statue of a devil if that is the meaning sauniere intended.
    about the money…you would have to sell an awful lot of masses to come up with the money sauniere had.
    he built roads, chateaux,a huge library… the cost of the books alone would have been enormous.
    he mixed with the elite in society and brought them to his house.
    i don’t believe he found the templar treasure because i believe as the writer of born in blood says, the treasure would have been used for 4 centuries to keep the organisation going underground as he believes happend.
    i think it was blackmail of the vatican which would lead you to think that he found some evidence about jesus previously hidden.
    the small compartment where he found parchments need only be small if he found some solid evidence that jesus or mary magdalene had reached france.
    there is a mystery to do with that place.it may not be the mystery that people think it is, but when an impoverished priest comes into enormous sums of money, the equivalent of many millions of dollars today, he has to have known something that someone didn’t want him to know.
    about plantard….it is hard to know.
    people say he wanted to establish his bloodline. what’s wrong with that.
    there was nothing he could have done about his bloodline once established.
    i tend to think he was sincere.maybe i’m wrong.
    one thing we need to remember…since the da vinci code was published, there are intentions by the catholic church to destroy brown and other authors in any way they can.
    i read that there are over 100 books ordered by the vatican to prove all these theories wrong.
    why go to so much trouble.
    why not just say…well we’re not worried,it’s all rubbish and the true believers know that.
    but the church is not doing that. it is running scared.
    something is hidden…well we know a lot was hidden in the past…but rhere are more things hidden than just the bloodline of jesus.
    i don’t think we are any where near the answer yet.i thik the church wants to divert people now, before they happen across the real hidden truth.
    rennes le chateau is only a small track, which if travelled could lead to a larger mystery and eventually the truth.
    imho.

    regards,

    shadows

  3. another thing
    i googled the name massimo polidori and he is either a musician or a writer of a book of mysteries in italy.
    the book of mysteries supposedly gives the answer to such things as…who was jack the ripper…who killed kennedy…who was the man in the iron mask…
    he is italian so presumably a catholic.
    he usually goes with the mystery rather than deny it, or he would have nothing to write about.
    so why is he now rubbishing all that we have heard previously.
    is it because he is catholic.
    is it because he thinks it is so obviously a fraud.
    or is there a reason we don’t know, namely that he was asked to do this.
    whatever, he is a small time writer,most of those stories have been written and re-written to death, there is nothing new there.i couldn’t find any other books by him so if that is his output, then he is not qualified to comment in this case.

    fact…sauniere was an impoverished priest who spent the equivalent of millions of dollars in the village.
    how.
    it’s like people assuring me that lindy chamberlain killed her baby.
    if they can tell me how, i will believe them.
    in other words,there has to be a means by which things can be done.

    fact…sauniere found some interesting relics and was supposed to know where to find more.
    i would be very interested in these relics,where are they, what did they mean.

    fact…many novels are written by people who know a little of the mystique of a place and use it in a story.
    doesn’t mean the original legend was a lie.

    fact…plantard may have wanted to prove his merovingian bloodline, but there are no kings of france i believe still reigning, so what would that have done for him.

    taking into consideration the fact that all the authors disputing the truth of this story are either catholic, or italian or both,i will wait until i read a more qualified version that might enable me to believe them.

    shadows

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