- LOS ANGELES, CA -- In
the latest attempt to attack the Billy Meier UFO case, Derek Bartholomaus,
lead case investigator for the professional skeptics organization IIG,
deliberately created and published false information about Michael Horn,
U.S. representative for the Meier case.
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- Specifically, Bartholomaus created an edited version
of an email from Horn in order to create the impression that Horn had admitted
to publishing false and misleading information. This falsification by Bartholomaus
was then published on the IIG website, as well as in a press release. Bartholomaus
added this comment so that no one would miss his dishonest attempt to defame
Horn:
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- "This is where Michael Horn revealed that he intentionally
posted false and misleading articles on his website in order to deceive
the public about the claims of Billy Meier."
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- The press release company, PRLog, subsequently cancelled
the release once they were made aware of the *false and libelous content
from Bartholomaus and IIG.
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- Public Humiliation
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- Bartholomaus has faced increasing pressure and public
humiliation since his appearance in The Silent Revolution of Truth, where
he made noticeable erroneous and unsubstantiated claims, such as alleging
Meier's use of model UFOs and model trees statements that he subsequently
had to publicly retract (see: http://theyfly.com/newsflash91/Top_Skeptic_Fixed.htm).
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- Even more damaging to Bartholomaus' reputation was his
admission about how he had come to make incorrect statements about IBM
scientist Marcel Vogel's metal analysis. Horn actually points to the correct
information in the Investigative Report, in his on-screen rebuttal to Bartholomaus,
which Bartholomaus was able to view and approve, in writing, before the
film was released.
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- After the film's release, in an email response to Horn,
Bartholomaus boasted of getting the incorrect information from a sentence
in an article on Horn's site, attempting to lay the blame on him for his
own error.
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- Horn informed Bartholomaus that not only had he made
a typo in that article but that he had posted a corrected version
and left both versions on his website so that critics would have the chance
to see them.
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- Bartholomaus' admission that he had done no actual research
on Vogel's analysis was all the more disturbing, since Horn had repeatedly
urged him to read the actual documentation in the Investigative Reports
and view Vogel's videotaped analysis of the metal, none of which Bartholomaus
ever did.
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- It also needs to be pointed out that Bartholomaus had
several years to prepare for his presentation in the film and was also
given the opportunity by the producers to script his dissenting presentation
in advance, as opposed to being asked specific questions in an interview.
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- Having now thoroughly destroyed his and his organization's
credibility, Bartholomaus further compounded his professional and ethical
problems by deliberately misrepresenting Horn's comments.
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- Obviously, Bartholomaus, IIG and James Randi are completely
bankrupt as far as any credible opposition to, or evidence against, the
Meier case is concerned. But it should be beneath even these persons to
stoop to such unprofessional and unethical tactics in the face of their
complete defeat.
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- Here is Horn's complete, unedited email, which, because
it indicted Bartholomaus for his incompetence, was edited to make it appear
to say something entirely different:
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- Subject: Re: Early Warning System
- From: michael@theyfly.com
- Date: August 27, 2008 1:17:42 PM PDT
- To: derek@iigwest.com
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- Hi Derek,
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- Yes, thanks for taking the hook on that one too! Of course
that's where you found it but...don't you remember my suggesting -
several times - that you view the videotape of Vogel's analysis or that
you read it in the Investigation Report, along with info about the other parties
that also analyzed the metal? Hmmmm?
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- We left that one there but put the correct info, for
all the world to see at http://theyfly.com/PDF/Scientific%20Experts.PDF
where it's been for several years...including since when you agreed to
do the interview.
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- And do note that I pointed you towards all of the material
in the investigation, at least 1,300 pages, many, many times. But instead
of actually investigating you copied and based your bravdo-cloaked
presentation on only what I'd written in that one version of the information.
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- Now, since the actual video and written record of what
Vogel actually did say has been widely available, just how brilliant are
you, having done no real homework? This was also evident in your,
now retracted, inane comments about "same trees equals model trees".
It's also evident in your refusal to support your claims about a model
in the film.
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- So, now when I put you on the hot seat, you go back to
my site to find out where you picked up the incorrect info but, naturally,
neglect to notice the right one. Now how on earth could I have known that
you were just a pseudo-investigator and that you'd not do your own
due diligence, that you wouldn't go to the source material itself?
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- Hey, could I be...psychic?
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- Surprised?
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- MH
- www.theyfly.com
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- Further, on the same page, Bartholomaus makes a most
egregious falsification, such as is worthy of the worst attempts at deliberate
character assassination. My complete email reponse to him is included below
so that it's easy to see just how, where...and why he edited it to corrupt
its true meaning:
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- Subject: Re: Early Warning System
- From: michael@theyfly.com
- Date: August 27, 2008 2:35:32 PM PDT
- To: derek@iigwest.com
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- Not at all. I posted a typo in an article. When you repeated
it in the film I realized that you didn't do your due diligence. And when
you singed off on it with my rebuttal of your error I knew that, eventually,
we'd have some more fun.The problem is, once, that you didn't
- do your due diligence. The source material was offered,
repeatedly, but you were too pompous and incompetent to review it.
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- Hello Michael. Thank you for admitting on the record
that your website intentionally posts false, misleading, or fraudulent
articles in order to try and support the claims of Billy Meier.
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- -Derek
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- Why Does Any of This Matter?
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- This is an indication of the great lengths that people
will go, and have gone, to keep the truth from emerging. And though it
is relatively mild compared to the numerous actual assassination attempts
against Meier's life, it reflects the same fearful, desperate and ugly
state of mind that tries to keep others enslaved in whatever small box
of illogical beliefs, religious or secular, that the perpetrators themselves
have climbed into.
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- As we leave behind the Age of Beliefs for the Age of
Knowledge, we shall see the last gasp of those dark systems, religions,
cults and sects as they consume themselves in their own negativity. One
of the keys to our future survival will be to let them fall under their
own weight. But there will also be times in which they must also be called
out, defied and directly opposed, in which the light of truth must be
shined directly on them for all to see.
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- And that is one reason why the unethical machinations
of this pseudo-scientific group of self-appointed skeptical "experts"
must be exposed, condemned and not tolerated.
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- *NOTE: These are two links where the false statements
about Horn can be found:
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- http://www.iigwest.org/investigations/meier/horn.shtml
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- http://www.iigwest.org/investigations/meier/horn_email_summary.html
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- http://www.theyfly.com/Skeptics_Caught.htm
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