"I've Read your book" continued..
I enjoy reading old UFO books, such as Gray Barker's "They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers" or the Rupplet report on UFOs. Reading a book published 40 plus years ago that promises SOON the flying saucers will reveal all, or that within a few years if no photographic or other evidence is obtained people will just forget about UFOs, makes me smile. But is also gives me a perspective on what UFO and abductee believers today espouse.
Suffering through a Sylvia Browne book can be difficult (and so many to choose from). But a reading of one of her books, after you have read Ian Rowland's "Cold Reading" book can be very educational. A good skeptic education can give you the skills and knowledge to just pick apart a uncritical thinkers book or article or web site. But we can also learn a lot by how they appeal to people and what it is they offer that some people don't seem to find in critical thinking. An important part of appealing to people as a skeptic is showing them how science and reason can also be fulfilling.
On day it would be lovely to stand on a hill, the battered and defeated scattered around, and exult "Sylvia you magnificent bastard, I read your book! " Though I would say it with deepest apologies to Rommel who was a magnificent tactician and general.
