Jeff Crowell
Paranormal Annoyance
So, I'm reading Hunt for the Skinwalker and have to say I'm pretty disappointed in the book. A lot of the claims in the book are, frankly, very unbelievable, under the most open-minded conditions. The claims of a "scientific" assault against the phenomena that happened on the Gorman ranch are a bit beyond my realm to believe, too. Oh, sure they use the most technical of equipment and there are a lot of people with Ph.D's on the NIDS's research team, but any monkey can learn to use that equipment (believe me, I'm a ghost hunter, I know. I'm a monkey and I use much of that gear myself), and exactly what to these people have Ph.D's in? Hrm? I mean do they have their doctorate in folk lore, Eastern Religions, or quilt making, or do they have their doctorate in physics, biology, or some other respectable branch of science? And what school did he/they get their Ph.D's? Online, Yale? What? I'm a little insulted by the author of the book (more on that later) in the assumption he makes that I'm going to believe part-and-parcel in what he's saying because he claims he has a Ph.D. I'm just supposed to blindly follow that? Come on. It's like using the "N" word to obtain credibility for a UFO story. UFO story tellers think they have an 'in' for credibility when they say a source is in NASA, as if every single person who works at NASA is emotionally stable, super intelligent, and 100% credible?! Remember, oh, say, 2 summers ago when that NASA astronaught geared up in a diaper and with some binding rope to go have a little chat with her lovers mistress? Not really a mark of stability, there. Just like Catholic priests, people from NASA have their faults, too so don't expect me to simply believe a UFO story because it was supposedly told by someone who worked at NASA.
Okay so to my point; this book has George Knapp on the cover as an author but the book is terrible. It reads like it was edited by a 5th grader (seriously my 11 year old daughter writes better friction than this), and like I said, the events described and methodologies employed by the NIDS team seem a little under par regarding say, criminal justice techniques or scientific methods in other, more mainstream fields. Now, I don't see how George Knapp, an acclaimed journalist, could have written this rag, then turn around and get the praise and respect he's receiving on the Paracast. Something doesn't mesh. Is it that this other guy, Colm Kelleher, mostly wrote the book and Knapp just sat off in the back? What gives? Is Knapp on the "credible" list or not?
Okay so to my point; this book has George Knapp on the cover as an author but the book is terrible. It reads like it was edited by a 5th grader (seriously my 11 year old daughter writes better friction than this), and like I said, the events described and methodologies employed by the NIDS team seem a little under par regarding say, criminal justice techniques or scientific methods in other, more mainstream fields. Now, I don't see how George Knapp, an acclaimed journalist, could have written this rag, then turn around and get the praise and respect he's receiving on the Paracast. Something doesn't mesh. Is it that this other guy, Colm Kelleher, mostly wrote the book and Knapp just sat off in the back? What gives? Is Knapp on the "credible" list or not?
If memory serves (and it's been a few months now.) He was listing some podcast worth listening to and the paracast was on the list. But, I'm not real sure now since it's been so long. I do know it was in a positive way and not negative. Not a lot of information just a passing refererence if memory serves. Maybe that's why I don't remember more of past lives. I can barely remember this one. 