Skeptics at IIG Caught Falsifying
Evidence!
LOS
ANGELES, CA Đ 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.
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:
ŇThis
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.Ó
The
press release company, PRLog, subsequently cancelled the release once they were
made aware of the *false and libelous content from Bartholomaus and IIG.
Public Humiliation
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 MeierŐs use of model UFOs and model
trees Đ statements that he subsequently had to publicly retract (see: http://theyfly.com/newsflash91/Top_Skeptic_Fixed.htm).
Even
more damaging to BartholomausŐ reputation was his admission about how he had
come to make incorrect statements about IBM scientist Marcel VogelŐs 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.
After
the filmŐs release, in an email response to Horn, Bartholomaus boasted of
getting the incorrect information from a sentence in an article on HornŐs site,
attempting to lay the blame on him for his own error.
Horn
informed Bartholomaus that not only had he made a typo in that article but that
he had posted a corrected version Đ and left both versions on his website so that
critics would have the chance to see them.
BartholomausŐ
admission that he had done no actual research on VogelŐs analysis was all the
more disturbing, since Horn had repeatedly urged him to read the actual
documentation in the Investigative Reports and view VogelŐs videotaped analysis
of the metal, none of which Bartholomaus ever did.
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.
Having
now thoroughly destroyed his and his organizationŐs credibility, Bartholomaus
further compounded his professional and ethical problems by deliberately
misrepresenting HornŐs comments.
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.
Here
is HornŐs complete, unedited email, which, because it indicted Bartholomaus for
his incompetence, was edited to make it appear to say something entirely
different:
Subject: Re: Early
Warning System
From: michael@theyfly.com
Date: August 27, 2008 1:17:42 PM PDT
To: derek@iigwest.com
Cc: jim@cfiwest.org, thebadastronomer@gmail.com
mshermer@skeptic.com
Hi
Derek,
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Hey,
could I be...psychic?
Surprised?
MH
Subject: Re: Early Warning System
From: michael@theyfly.com
Date: August 27, 2008 2:35:32 PM PDT
To: derek@iigwest.com
Cc: jim@cfiwest.org, thebadastronomer@gmail.com, mshermer@skeptic.com
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.
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.
-Derek
Why Does Any of This Matter?
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 MeierŐs 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.
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.
And that is one reason why the unethical machinations of this pseudo-scientific group of self-appointed skeptical ŇexpertsÓ must be exposed, condemned and not tolerated.
*NOTE:
These are two links where the false statements about Horn can be found:
http://www.iigwest.org/investigations/meier/horn.shtml
http://www.iigwest.org/investigations/meier/horn_email_summary.html