That was a relief. At least now I knew now who I was
grappling with. Then I began to look at his resume’ and all of the proud
accomplishments he listed (besides winning the 2007 Boulder Comicon costume
contest for dressing as Princess Leia in her Jabba the Hut slave girl outfit).
And then I noticed something; -- his education was funded by NASA. According to
his own website, he got a grant from NASA for his post-doctoral work. He also
continues to get funding from NASA for his other research projects, most of
which include studying craters. After I posted on Twitter about it;
Stuart responded on his blog on August 8th, 2012, admitting
that this is accurate, but downplaying it of course.
“I make a meager living like most scientists and, like most
astronomers, a fair amount of my salary does come from NASA-awarded grants, but
I literally have less connection with NASA than a custodian who sweeps the
floors of JPL.”
Yeah no connection at all, except for the part where they pay
you… You can no more be a “little bit” on the take from NASA than you can be
the proverbial “a little bit pregnant,” Stuart.
Now to be clear, I’m not implying that he is taking money
directly from NASA (“hush money,” he called it) to post attacks against Richard
and I on his blog. Although, to use his phrase, “I wouldn’t put it past him.”
But being financially dependent on the very institution that Mr. Hoagland and I
have challenged and exposed on a regular basis for more than a decade and a
half for his rent, food and car payments by definition creates a pernicious
bias that cannot be overcome. It is an inherent conflict of interest, and it
permeates everything he does and writes about us. How can it not?
This changed everything for me. He wasn’t attacking me and
accusing Hoagland and I of fraud because he was just a psycho, like expat, he
was doing it because he was a paid shill for NASA. In fact, it wouldn’t
surprise me if he was able to respond so quickly and extensively to my posts
because he was writing on his personal blog using taxpayer or university funded
equipment and internet access while he was supposed to be working!
(Note:
8/16/2012; this suspicion was confirmed when Dr. Robbins posted his latest update today at 3:45PM, the middle of the work day. It
obviously must have taken him at least a couple of hours to write this up. I’m
wondering which government funded project you charged these hours of work on
your personal blog to, Stuart)?
As my dad used to say, “It’s good work if you can get it”
Sheldo… er Stuart…
At any rate, now that I knew he was being paid by NASA to
attack me and Mr. Hoagland, I calmed down a bit. After all, like James Oberg
and “Dr. Phil” Plait before him, NASA has constantly trotted out one paid shill
after another to distort our claims, spread disinformation about us and
generally charge us with one nefarious deed or another. It’s old hat, and the
fact that they are on the NASA payroll completely discredits the shop-worn “I’m
just an independent skeptic defending the people against pseudoscience” line.
That of course doesn’t stop Sheldon from using it.
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| Dr. Stuart Robbins – Paid Shill for NASA |
Sorry, I mean Stuart.
The fact is, no one who is taking money from NASA, and
therefore financially dependent on NASA, has any kind of credibility as a
“skeptic.” A true skeptic is someone who
reserves judgment and questions established orthodoxies, paradigms and dogmas.
I for instance, was initially skeptical of the Daedalus Ziggurat image, but inclined
to lean toward its authenticity because of a variety of reasons I’ve already
stated and will cover in this new post. I am also skeptical of NASA’s honesty
and the integrity of the data they present, due to years of catching them
fabricating data and painting over things they don’t want the public to see on
images from all over the solar system. I
also am fully convinced that the official NASA version of Apollo photo
AS11-38-5564 has been deliberately altered by NASA to obscure not only the
Ziggurat, but a s***- load of other artifacts all over that image. I will
provide further proof of that later in this posting. But Stuart, like Oberg,
Plait, Sagan and a whole gaggle of others before him, is not a “skeptic.” He is
a professional, paid debunker. He is not
interested in the truth, and he will never admit to anything that would cast NASA
in a bad light. If he did, it would be career suicide.
So let’s keep the issue of his credibility as an independent
voice out of this. He’s on the take, plain and simple. He can no more do a fair
and independent analysis of this or any other claim made by me or Mr. Hoagland
than Sheldon can sit on a different spot on the couch other than “his” spot.
It’s just not in his DNA.
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| Separated at birth? |
Or his wallet.
So now the point was, why respond at all? I was leaning
against doing so, and several close friends (including Richard Hoagland) urged
me to put my energies elsewhere. Plus, I have a book to finish off for David
Hatcher Childress, a promotional tour to organize, and a Hollywood producer
wants me to convert a screenplay I wrote into a graphic novel. All cool
projects that interest me. Plus, I promised in my last post that I would
pillory Stuart (paid shill for NASA) no further, and I hate going back on my
promise.
But then, a bunch of weirdo’s and Cylon-like followers of
Stuart’s (paid shill for NASA) started coming on to my Facebook page and attacking me
in the most personal and vicious manner. Many of them were fake Facebook
profiles, created just so they could come in and post nasty stuff about
me. They also personally attacked my
brother and sent harassing messages about me to several of my more comely
female Facebook friends. So I got pissed off.
Now, I know this is what “they” want. The Oberg’s and
Stuart’s (paid shill for NASA) of the world want me to waste my time defending
against their constant attacks, and no matter how I respond or how many times I
prove their claims false, tomorrow there will just be 10 more
charges/accusations/distortions they will challenge me to defend. So it’s a never ending cycle of “are you
still beating your wife?” type questions. Accordingly, this really will be the
last time I respond to Mr. Robbins (paid shill for NASA) on this set of issues.
I have better things to do.
So let’s do this…
(Quick note: to save time on the rest of this document,
“Stuart (paid shill for NASA)” will now be abbreviated to “Stuart (PS4NASA).”
In his introduction, Stuart (PS4NASA) starts by saying that
despite all our differences, he’s not a Hater (which is more than I can say for
the creeps who follow his blog)…
“I also want to, very briefly, up-front address Mike’s claim
(again) that I “hate” him with the evidence being my analysis of these claims.
I addressed this idea at length before, and I recommend you read this blog post
on it. That said, Mike, I do not hate you.”
Well, that’s nice to know, Stuart (PS4NASA), because based
on this statement …
“So again, I am not saying that it was Richard nor Bara who
“enhanced” the image originally, but I would not put it past either of them.”
… And this declaration…
“Hoagland is either a liar (he did not spend days analyzing
this, he just went with it), or he is completely incompetent (that he spent
days analyzing this and thinks it’s real).”
… And calling me “Hoagland’s little buddy…” and implying I’m
“paranoid” and calling me several other unflattering names…
-- I wasn’t really feeling the love. In fact, I was kind of
thinking you really didn’t like me or the people I work with. And then the fact
you had expat, a psychopathic cyber-stalker, on your podcast to go after me kinda
reinforced that impression.
Glad to know that was all a misunderstanding, and you never
meant to imply that Hoagland or I might have fabricated the original Ziggurat
image.
Of course, if you really felt that way you never would have
put it in print in the first place, would you?
Stuart (PS4NASA) then goes on to express his deep concern
for my emotional well-being:
“When you say that I attack you (which I don’t – I address
your claims), it (a) makes you sound like you have a persecution complex, (b)
makes you sound a tad paranoid and are in a black and white “us versus them”
world, and (c) makes it easier for you to attack me rather than to address my
analysis of your claims.”
I didn’t realize that you also had a doctorate in psychology
Stuart (PS4NASA), but thanks for the concern. I can also honestly say at this
point I don’t hate you either. But the people you surround yourself with are a
bunch of vicious, nasty, psychopathic creeps with serious anger management
issues.
As for Oberg… well I’m sorry to say I can’t be as generous.
I hate his guts.
Oh yeah, and “Dr. Phil” too…
Now, let’s address Stuart’s (PS4NASA) main points.
From Stuart’s (PS4NASA) blog post:
“As promised, Mike Bara has posted a rebuttal to my analysis
of the lunar ziggurat. To recap from earlier, I noted these three points of what
Mike must explain before I would revise my conclusion:”
Well OK first off, I couldn’t care less about what you
(PS4NASA) want me to “explain” before you revise your conclusion. I already
know what your conclusion is going to be, regardless of anything I might or
might not explain to you. You are a professional debunker, plain and simple.
You are only pretending to be open to “revising” your conclusion. Plus, I have
no intention of addressing everything you posted, because you post so much it
would take me weeks, and as I said I have better things to do, so we’ll just
hit the highlights. That said, Stuart (PS4NASA) then starts his rebuttal with his
3 questions. These 3 questions are the main pillars of his conclusion that the
Ziggurat is a fraud. As I will show, all three of them are based on bad data,
false claims and incorrect reasoning.
We will go over them one-by-one in the next 3 posts. For
dramatic purposes, challenges #1 and #3 will be addressed first, and challenge
#2 will be address in the final, epic post. So Alice… to the Moon!
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