[escepticos] detallitos sobre viejas historias

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        Se que suena ridiculo, pero he estado ojeando la webpage de
la pelicula "Conspiracy Theory" y resulta que son unos escepticos.
La verdad, no os recomiendo que leais http://www.conspiracytheory.com/
porque no encontrareis muchas cosas nuevas, pero he visto dos cosas
interesantes que copio descaradamente.

	Santi


Acerca de los circulos en campos de cereales:

     Winds can lay down crop in patches known as
     lodging. But geometric patterns in fields can
     hardly be attributable to natural phenomena.
     Meaden has changed his theory to first
     accommodate complex circles, ovals and even
     triangles (!), but now admits that most
     circles are hoaxes and the theory can only
     explain simpler patterns.

     What about cellular changes in plants within
     crop circles? 

     Yes, what about the changes? Although this is
     another claim that is widely circulated among
     ufologists and cerealogists, the evidence is
     simply not very good. A few photographs of
     alleged changed in the "crystalline structure"
     of wheat stems were published in some
     magazines and UFO publications. The method
     used was spagyrical analysis. This is a
     technique involving crystallization of the
     residue of organic material after harsh
     processing, invented three centuries ago and
     popularized by Sir Kenelm Digby. Digby is
     known for other wonderful inventions like
     condensation of sunlight and the development
     of sword salve (which you had to put on the
     weapon rather than on the wound, in order to
     cure the wound). The fact that this technique
     was tried at all casts serious doubts on the
     "researchers" involved. 

Sobre el ganado mutilado:

       1.Cattle are very expensive. Each "head" is
         worth several thousand dollars. 
       2.Insurance doesn't cover "range death" due
         to natural causes (e.g. falling and
         killing themselves). 
       3.Insurance does cover vandalism (e.g. a
         vandal shooting a cow). 
       4.A space alien killing a cow will be
         covered by insurance provided a
         cooperating policeman will write up the
         report that way 
       5.Space aliens mutilating cows seem to
         respct county (police jurisdiction)
         lines. 
       6.Relatively little blood leaks out of a
         dead animal (compared to a live animal)
         when it is cut. The heart just isn't
         pumping.