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Old 4th June 2017, 04:17 AM   #189
Roboramma
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Originally Posted by King of the Americas View Post
But that means you MISSED over half of the evidence for the claims being made!

AND the first half was just Graham bitching about how the Skeptic magazine has mis-characterized him. To which Shermer apologizes and offers to print a retraction.

Is this why you quit watching?
In the part I watched Shermer said that Skeptic would be printing an article about him. They then showed that apparently the author of the article had pre-published it on some other website, of which Shermer was unaware. Hancock then attacked Shermer for publishing the article because of certain complaints he had about it. Shermer A) Hadn't published it yet, and may not even have read it. B) Wasn't given a chance to actually read it to see if Hancock's complaints were valid. Instead he took a few out of context quotes that may or may not have been accurate portrayals of what was said in the article and whose validity wasn't even discussed.

Shermer never offered to print a retraction. Why would he print a retraction for something that he hadn't printed?

And no that wasn't why I stopped watching.
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