tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post7493307804735135530..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: Why I'm Beginning to Dislike the UFO Field - Part FourKRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-55775327541087297132018-04-25T14:53:32.825-07:002018-04-25T14:53:32.825-07:00CDA -
Yes, the laws in the US are different from ...CDA -<br /><br />Yes, the laws in the US are different from those in the UK. Yes, newspapers are afraid of lawsuits... but there was nothing libelous in the article I had written about Menzel, and since he was dead (and was a somewhat public person) he a. couldn't be libeled and b. the standard is much higher in those circumstances. My point was that the editor didn't wish to engage in a conversation about it, and that the rumor that I libeled people was untrue. (Well, I did call Gerald Anderson a liar since he claimed to be a Navy SEAL but was not... his name even appeared on their Wall of Shame... I showed a copy of this to Stan Friedman.)<br /><br />My point was that there are those who have suggested that since I write science fiction and can invent imaginative scenarios, that my analyses of various UFO related cases can be ignored. I have never heard this applied to anyone else who have published books on UFOs and of science fiction including Nick Pope and Bruce Maccabee to name but two. I will note that many of the members of th Science Fiction Writers of America are well known and working scientists who have an interest in science fiction. No one suggests that because they write science fiction their work in their fields of science is somehow tainted. KRandlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-22258775169896997482018-04-25T09:42:00.085-07:002018-04-25T09:42:00.085-07:00People have different views on what constitutes li...People have different views on what constitutes libel. Also, what is libellous in the UK may not be in the US, and vice-versa. Newspapers get scared of columns that may be libellous because of the huge 'compensation' that may be awarded. I assume that this is usually far higher in the US than in the UK, even when the victim is nobody important. Certainly you cannot libel a deceased person, in either country.<br /><br />As to UFO authors writing SF, Donald Keyhoe did write aviation fiction long before he ever penned any of his UFO books. I don't believe this ever disqualified him from expressing his strong UFO ideas upon the public. If anything it counted in his favour, at least in his first two books.cdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01005702597775594084noreply@blogger.com