Talk:Stanton T. Friedman

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Contents 1 bias? 2 ETH 3 Page clean-up 4 Citations & References

[edit] bias?

This is a fairly well written article, but IMHO it is strongly bias in favor of Mr. Friedman and his ideas. I think the addition of some criticisms or rebuttals of his work/theories would improve it. Alas, I am not knowledgeable enough in this field to undertake such an endeavour.
--Careax 08:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ETH

WTF is "ETH"???

--Larean01 13:40, 20 September 2006 (UTC) I agree. ETH seems to stand for "extra terrestrial hypothesis", which would be the idea that UFOs come from ET civilisations.

[edit] Page clean-up

There are several comments here which sure seem in my eyes to be "digs," like the gratuitous comments in regards to Friedman's background as a nuclear physicist. I'm going to do a bit of a clean-up here, so if there areCanada Jack 18:52, 1 June 2007 (UTC) any strong objections, let me know.

[edit] Citations & References

See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 07:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

The article says "He is unique[citation needed]amongst those who advocate such ideas in that he believes these machines are designed and operate according to physics and technologies that are entirely plausible within modern human understanding, albeit beyond present human engineering."

That's wrong. Jean-Pierre Petit says the same thing. And for this assertion :

"Friedman has reached the conclusion[citation needed]that a small fraction of documented UFO reports are observations of physical machines designed, built, and flown by an alien species from another planet to visit/study the earth."

Try this video (I find it by chance, I didn't really look for references. There should be better sources.) Kromsson (talk) 13:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I've edited this article significantly. It was full of claims that reflected positively on Friedman and which were "substantiated" only his website; eg I can no evidence (and I have searched) for the lrole with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a science journalist that the article claimed. (I did find results showing that he helped make CBC programs on UFOs - this difference is not hair splitting: claiming that SF is recognized as a "straight" science journalist boosts the credibility of UFOlogy.) The website of a man who will sue people for saying that his claims regarding UFOs are untrue [1] should be used cautiously as a source, especially when making claims that promote his own activities. Umptious (talk) 00:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the claim that SF worked as a science journalist for the CBC, it would seem very strange indeed that a positive article about him published by the CBC wouldn't mention this, if was the case! [2] Umptious (talk) 00:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)