Hi all,

To me, it's funny that the people that are skeptics are the ones that 
haven't been in Arkansas or Florida (such as David Sibley), and that their 
word is being taken as "definitive" over those that say they have seen 
Ivory-billeds.

That's a shame that we have placed that much faith in a few self-annointed 
"experts".

Richard

>From: Gerald & Laura Tarbell <>
>Reply-To: Gerald & Laura Tarbell <>
>To: 
>Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] OT: Latest in Ivory Billed debate
>Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:27:15 -0500
>
>Last night in Annapolis Bruce Beehler started his talk by asking us how 
>many
>of us believed the Ivory-billed is still around. I didn't take a count but 
>I
>think there were as many of us skeptics as there were believers.
>     Somehow  - and I am somewhat ashamed to admit this - I left the TV on
>after the news and Maury Povich comes on. His topic is 2 women who think
>their house is haunted. A team of "paranormal investigators" go in there,
>make recordings of voices that they claim are ghosts speaking and take some
>video of some lights flashing aoround the room. They speak of "energy" at
>certain locations in the house that confirm the existence of paranormal
>things.
>     Needless to say, I saw a parallel between the evidence for the ghosts
>and the evidence for the Ivory-billed at both the Arkansas and Florida
>locations. Until these people can come up with some MUCH better evidence, 
>to
>me they're just ghostbusters who, if you want to believe the ghosts are
>there, will be glad to come in and tell you what you want to hear.
>     I was as extatatic as everyone else at the news of the Ivory-billed
>"confirmation" when it came out. Then I heard Tim Gallagher speak to us at
>the MOS convention last year and he converted me from a potential believer
>to a die hard skeptic in little over an hour. To me his terrible footage 
>and
>recordings were that unconvincing.
>     The team in Florida seemed to want to say that the lack of photos and
>other good evidence is just simply because this bird is that elusive and
>determined to stay undetected.
>     So are ghosts.
>     Jerry Tarbell
>     Carroll County

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