Post by Gian on Dec 9, 2005 11:06:28 GMT -5
I had been importuned, shall we say, twice by this company in production for this show. I won't call it a documentary from what I have been told. It aired on December 8 on the History Channel. I deduce it was more or less designed to get even with SCI-FI Channel and steal some thunder from all the publicity they have created on the Triangle. History Channel did this once before, when SCI-FI did a huge documentary on Roswell, making a debunk on the subject and rushing it to production to steal thunder from SCI-FI's more objective work.
Needless to say, the Triangle show was also some kind of debunkery, proffering even Larry Kusche from his 30 year old ideas on the subject that he gleaned from doing a 6 month stint researching the topic for the library at U of A at Tempe. Although his Bermuda Triangle Bibliography produced a typical sophomore reference work, the immense popularity of the Bermuda Triangle in 1974 made it possible for him to publish his menial findings, which then included his postscripts with his own take on what these newspaper articles implied.
In like manner H.C. rushed this show and did a debunk. I received emails from Rob MacGregor regarding the appearance of the show and how it treated him and Bruce Gernon. I thought it best to share them here, and Rob has consented.
First email:
Gian,
Did you see the H.C. documentary? Overall, it was very negative. They tried to make it scientifically based, but overlooked the fact that true science is about exploration of the unknown, not just limiting itself solely to what is known and common.
They repeatedly focused on weather and pilot error, discounting all other possible explanations writing it off as legend and myth.
You and Bruce were on their several times and they flashed your book cover once--but not ours--but so was Larry Kusche, whose book cover was up for several seconds. They also gave him the last word...something like: "The less one knows about a subject, the more you can make a mystery out of it."
So it goes.
Rob
In response to my email, expressing my fears this could happen and that I had been warned (only after I had consented to help), Rob replied:
They didn't really go after you. You just presented a different point of view. They went after Bruce and Hutchison, in particular. They had a Miami meteorologist on repeatedly who dismissed the idea of electronic fog and made light of anything unknown. The program's format basically was that science is what we know, the rest is myth and legend, superstition and paranormal.
They spent a lot of time on Flight 19 mainly using an aviation investigator who said it was all Taylor's fault and that there was nothing unusual taking place.
Oddly enough, they kept bringing up this idea of sea monsters--giant octopi--swallowing ships. They used it, of course, as a paper tiger--something they could easily dismiss.
While they went along with the debunkers, with Bruce they didn't even trust his description of the cloud in his experience. They said he 'claimed' to fly through a tunnel in the cloud. Incredible.
Rob
Needless to say, the Triangle show was also some kind of debunkery, proffering even Larry Kusche from his 30 year old ideas on the subject that he gleaned from doing a 6 month stint researching the topic for the library at U of A at Tempe. Although his Bermuda Triangle Bibliography produced a typical sophomore reference work, the immense popularity of the Bermuda Triangle in 1974 made it possible for him to publish his menial findings, which then included his postscripts with his own take on what these newspaper articles implied.
In like manner H.C. rushed this show and did a debunk. I received emails from Rob MacGregor regarding the appearance of the show and how it treated him and Bruce Gernon. I thought it best to share them here, and Rob has consented.
First email:
Gian,
Did you see the H.C. documentary? Overall, it was very negative. They tried to make it scientifically based, but overlooked the fact that true science is about exploration of the unknown, not just limiting itself solely to what is known and common.
They repeatedly focused on weather and pilot error, discounting all other possible explanations writing it off as legend and myth.
You and Bruce were on their several times and they flashed your book cover once--but not ours--but so was Larry Kusche, whose book cover was up for several seconds. They also gave him the last word...something like: "The less one knows about a subject, the more you can make a mystery out of it."
So it goes.
Rob
In response to my email, expressing my fears this could happen and that I had been warned (only after I had consented to help), Rob replied:
They didn't really go after you. You just presented a different point of view. They went after Bruce and Hutchison, in particular. They had a Miami meteorologist on repeatedly who dismissed the idea of electronic fog and made light of anything unknown. The program's format basically was that science is what we know, the rest is myth and legend, superstition and paranormal.
They spent a lot of time on Flight 19 mainly using an aviation investigator who said it was all Taylor's fault and that there was nothing unusual taking place.
Oddly enough, they kept bringing up this idea of sea monsters--giant octopi--swallowing ships. They used it, of course, as a paper tiger--something they could easily dismiss.
While they went along with the debunkers, with Bruce they didn't even trust his description of the cloud in his experience. They said he 'claimed' to fly through a tunnel in the cloud. Incredible.
Rob
