Dr. Mitchell Wants To Believe

Where do you go after you've been to the moon and back? In Dr. Edgar Mitchell's case, you go a little nutty. First of all, you have to hand it to a guy who accomplishes all that is necessary to become a pioneering astronaut. Dr. Mitchell took part in the longest moonwalk in history on the Apollo 14 mission and was smart enough to earn his doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Now at the age of 77, he's grabbing headlines (and the adoration of UFO zealots) with the astonishing claim that, yes, it turns out aliens are real and have visited us frequently (which vindicates Dr. Laibow from the last post). As sci-fi films have been trying to tell us for years, the aliens are indeed small, strange-looking beings with large eyes and possess superior technology. I guess it would have been anti-climactic if they looked like your overweight neighbor or John Tesh (now he's off the hook as well). So there you have it. The decades old government cover-up is over. We will now need to devote resources to new considerations, such as: should they learn English, or will we be obligated to have services available in alien-ese? Should our little friends be screened for infectious alien diseases before they are allowed to mingle freely among us? What sort of carbon emissions do their spacecrafts give off? And, Dr. Rima Laibow wants to know, what about reparations (or at least an official apology) for all those abductions and 'probes' inflicted on innocent earthlings over the years?

But wait. Before you break out the Klingon dictionary, let's do some poking around. Besides excelling in a profession dictated by hard science, Dr. Mitchell has always been drawn to the paranormal. He conducted ESP experiments with friends back on earth while he was in space. Not long after his return, he founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences, devoted to the study of consciousness and psychic phenomena. Several years ago he claimed that he was cured of kidney cancer by a teenage 'remote-healer' (although the cancer was never confirmed by the standard testing). Regarding his alien claims, he has never actually seen any evidence first-hand, but has it on good authority from unnamed sources who are now, um...deceased. Sorry UFO-buffs, just pull your warp drives back to sub-light speed, because this isn't quite the smoking phaser you were hoping for. But we are still Not Alone...we have each other.

The Truth Is Out There...but probably not on YouTube.

Take this to the bank...No medical/pharmaceutical break-through will go unpunished by the fringe alternative-medicine consortium (usually led by marginalized, disaffected, and personality-disordered doctors and other 'experts'). Case in point: Every autumn, flu shots are made available to the public in hopes of building up population immunity against influenza, which makes it's global rounds every year, killing and hospitalizing thousands of people. Flu-mist, a nasal spray derived from live but weakened flu strains, was developed as an alternative to the shot, and may have some minor side effects as the body responds to this 'mini-exposure' to the flu and builds up an immunity against the real thing.
A few alarmist videos have popped up on YouTube which claim: Flu-mist is just a step away from becoming H5N1 pandemic flu and is part of 'Their' (the illuminati) plan to effectively KILL OFF MOST OF THE EARTH"S INHABITANTS THROUGH VACCINATIONS! AHHHHHHHGG! Your local health department is in on it! So is your doctor! Trust no one! Eating fungus jelly and mega-doses of vitamin C will cure influenza and cancer!
Watch this example, complete with X-File-ish music and a vegan host.

Now, there's always a little more to these slick purveyors of paranoia than meets the eye:
The medical professional interviewed for this video is Dr. Rima Laibow, who campaigns against any form of medical treatment other than natural supplements and nutrition. She is actually a psychiatrist whose specialty is working with people abducted by aliens. In fact, she claims to have been abducted herself. She is married to General Albert Stubblebine, formerly with Army Intelligence and now on the Board of Psi-Tech, a company providing 'remote viewing' services and training. To get an idea of what this pair's dinnertime conversation might be like, read this speech by Albert.
Remember, these folks need a customer base motivated by fear and paranoia to make their living. Further insight can be found on this link. Does this pair suffer from follie a deux ('shared delusion'), or are they crazy like a fox?

Suspicious Minds

Remember those rumors of empty rail-cars equipped with shackles a few years ago that had the conspiracy crowd moving 30 miles further out of town? Well, beef up your compound boys, because the CDC (Center for People-I mean Disease-Control) has stockpiled 500,000 plastic coffins in Georgia! You can ascertain the truthfulness of this claim because it's (1.) on the internet and (2.) it's hosted by Alex Jones' Infowars site, where he makes a living by stirring up our government-wary tendencies.
Watch this clip. (Although it gets pretty boring after a few minutes)
Well, there it is. They know something bad is about to happen. (Or did they get the wrong Georgia?)


OR...sniff around a little, because when something smells funny, it usually is. Turns out these plastic 'coffins' are actually vaults, sometimes substituted for concrete ones, that all coffins must legally be enclosed in before burial to keep embalming fluid from getting into the environment. This location in Georgia is actually a manufacturing and storage plant, not a government stockpile. Did you notice it's right off a main road with no fence or security? Pretty top-secret, eh? Remember, the hard-working folks that pay their bills through the sale of certain films, literature, lecture appearances, 'natural' health products, and survival gear need you to see malevolence in harmless things.

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