Drawing unwarrented conclusions based on unsufficient evidence. It has conducted a religious crusade over the minds and hearts of the American public, in direct violation of all concepts of objective, rational, detached, evaluation of data. It is making important inroads among scientists, educators, opinion makers, and some members of the general public. But let's review the fall season together. Agents Mulder and Scully are openly fictional, but the paranormal forces they encounter are still presented disingenuously as real.
Producers say they'll try to balance paranormal claims with skeptical analysis.
The Discovery Channel has run its first paranormal special. Meanwhile the forces of unreason have gone on gaining ground, if more quietly, in the print media. The busiest week of my life was the week after Harvard psychiatrist John Mack's pro-UFO abduction book debuted to massive fanfare. The bad news is that Paul Kurtz, Phil Klass, Robert Baker, and others, ran themselves ragged making sure that Dr. Mack would never go unchallenged. It completely absorbed us to reply to the pro-Mack publicity that week.