Want to find out if they really made clones? Withhold the publicity until they allow tests. Stop being used by these almost certainly fraudulent media-whores. Take them the fuck off of CNN.com. You’re taking up precious pixels on my computer screen that could be used for real news. Tell them to put the fuck up or shut the fuck up.
It’s pretty much guarranteed that they are fraudulent attention whores, because otherwise they would have done DNA tests right after the birth to prove themselves.
Yeah, which is why is pisses me off they still get front-page attention.
Every now and again I think about starting a cult. No. Seriously. I just think, fuck it. I’m sick of being a hollow skeptic all the time, observing all this crap, knowing it’s hooey, watching the seeming ease with which clever cons put it over all the dumbasses, and I just think maybe I should stop sneering and get into it. Money, fame, willing cult-ettes (:))…
[sub]But really I know that I’m too straight and my own conscience and inherent scepticism would leap out and strangle me if I ever tried, not to mention the fact that I’d never be able to keep a straight face while explaining to my followers that we are all descended from aliens (or whatever), so it’ll never happen dammit, I just have to sit on the sidelines heckling impotently while some cult leader has all the fun. Damn my boring straight middle class life. I’m in a blah mood today.[/sub]
I’m thinking of joining the Raelians. I just wanna get me one of them cool shiny shirts with the shoulder thingies!
I have cloned Elvis, Jimi, Walt Disney and Vince Lombardi.
They live in my attic.
I’ll verify when the little lady says it’s okay, but I’m just making a little press conference to get some publicity.
Sheesh, what a media WHOOSH. These idiots with NO credibility are blazing through their 15 minutes. What a bunch of fucktard spin-doctors. Why am I even reading this in my newspaper? WHOOSH! again. Show me the $$$/DNA!
Now the journalist that was going to oversee the DNA tests is saying it “might” be an “elaborate hoax”.
What the fuck was “elaborate” about this hoax? They could have phoned this one in, you dumb piece of shit.
I agree. It’s driving me crazy that the media isn’t approaching this with any skepticism at all. Of course, the same could be said of John Edward, Sylvia Browne, Uri Geller, etc.
The problem is, once the fanfare dies down, all we’ll be left with is a lot of people with the impression that humans have been successfully cloned. Even if the Raelians take and fail a DNA testing, that will hardly be front page news. As we all know, “Man Bites Dog” is news, but “Man Lied About Biting Dog” isn’t.
Frauds are nothing new, but reputable news sources should learn the difference between news and sensationalism.
Hey, it sells papers, right?
I’m not saying that the media is intelligent, but I think most (uneducated) people would buy a newspaper with a headline about the first human clone than something “boring” like the endless discussion on Iraq, politics, or the economy.
Hey, I like the Raelians. Wacky people like that from my home province make life interesting. And the skimpily-clad chicks made good viewing at parades 
But wearing my professional news producing hat, I’ve got a couple things to say. First, anything that goes on during Christmas holidays is guaranteed to make major major news, only because nothing else is going on. Remember JonBenet Ramsay? :shudder: There is no reason for that girl’s murder to still be selling papers today, but because it happened in late December it went worldwide.
Cloning by Raelians is the same damn shit. Hey, they even picked the one science reporter who couldn’t build a solid argument against psychics and telekinetics, fer chrissake.
Don’t want to hear about the Raelians until they’ve got proof? Write your friggin media outlet of choice (don’t call, because calls are dismissed) and say so. Say you will turn off the station and block it from your sight permanently (because you’re a smart person who can program their damn TV tuner to block out channels).
Great now we have to write news organizations to remind them to show the fucking news. What I wonder is, if in a court of law, the leader told the story of his abduction by 4 foot almond eyed aliens, wouldn’t he be thrown in the loony bin? Does free speech protect him? He’s obviously nuts, lock him up, and stop wasting airtime on this nonevent.
Despite the hiring of this near-incompetent reporter, he’s reporting that it "may be an elaborate hoax. Doesn’t sound good for them. (Although they may already have extracted all they wanted in new nutbars^M^M^M recruits.)
The sad thing is that this isn’t a new story- it was “reported” back in April. I’m not sure what Ed Anger had to say on the subject.
This is a good example of how the main stream media (read TV) is really all about making the news with sensationalism. Turn them off, and as ratings go down, maybe the news coverage will improve. You can always get your news from a number of sources both in the USA and overseas…free, and on the computer.
Well hell, I’m game. Want to help me start up the Australian chapter of the Brewist Monk order I helped set up in Canada?
Prime duties of accolytes include brewing and drinking beer, so it may be a bit of a hard sell…
What I hate about all this is that just because they believe in something different that the majority, their being outcasted at every fucking moment. That’s Bullshit. Them believing in something has nothing to due with their claims. So fucking drop it already.
Let’s turn the tables a minute…
Raelians: We don’t believe you did this.
Majority: But it’s true, we did.
Raelians: Yeah right, you believe in God.
See how them believing in something has nothing to do with the cloning? See how ridiculous?
Look, I don’t like their claims either without proof. But don’t hang em’ right away. These things take time.
feh. Hang 'em.* they make a claim and then refuse to show the proof, or submit to scientific peer reviewed study. If you think they should be given time, then I have a promising real estate development on the moon that you might be interested in. It dosent matter how much time we give them. they will never allow fair testing of their claims.
- not literally.
So even though the leader was abducted by 4 foot tall aliens, and told by them that humans were created from aliens, we should give him the benefit of the doubt?
:rolleyes:
yme, I think you missed my post where I pointed out this “story” was originally in the Weekly World News 8 months ago.