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I have always said that I think that I am man enough and intellectually honest enough to admit when I am wrong.
For a long time now, I have been basing my opinions of information provided by Kraig through a filter of his supposedly well researched bogus military history, and after that, the entire Olbers Manifest fiasco. I have known Kraig for quite a while, and in all those years, I have found him to be both EXTREMELY knowledgeable, polite, and willing to share much of his information. When I was told about the military history issue, I was very disappointed and disturbed, because of my military service, I can get touchy about that subject. All of that has been hashed out on a couple of different forums over the several years, so I won't go into the details of each instance here.
I recently did something I should have done a long time ago. I looked into things myself. My sources (which have no dogs in this hunt) have explained to me several things that have made clear the entire situation, and called into question the research done on Kraig. Since the "Kraig Bashing" has taken place on more than one forum and several threads, I decided to publicly apologize to Kraig on a thread all its own.
Kraig,
I was wrong! I apologize for jumping on a bandwagon that I hadn't looked into myself. Like I said, you have always been polite and accommodating. I never brought it up, because it never had anything to do with what we had been talking about at the time.
To Everybody Else,
You are welcome to chose what you want to believe. As for myself, I am extremely confident that the sources of my information are unimpeachable. The military service thing is no longer an issue for me. That said, I will give the benefit of the doubt to Kraig in any circumstances. Don't mistake this apology as a change in my position that the Olbers Document as presented was a fraud meant to deceive. We researched it in depth, and we all came to the same conclusion that it was not authentic. I just think he may not have known it was a fake.
.........as an aside, I won't say who my sources are, or exactly what information I was given. I will only say that I am extremely confident that the information I have is correct.
Again, Kraig I apologize - Mike
For a long time now, I have been basing my opinions of information provided by Kraig through a filter of his supposedly well researched bogus military history, and after that, the entire Olbers Manifest fiasco. I have known Kraig for quite a while, and in all those years, I have found him to be both EXTREMELY knowledgeable, polite, and willing to share much of his information. When I was told about the military history issue, I was very disappointed and disturbed, because of my military service, I can get touchy about that subject. All of that has been hashed out on a couple of different forums over the several years, so I won't go into the details of each instance here.
I recently did something I should have done a long time ago. I looked into things myself. My sources (which have no dogs in this hunt) have explained to me several things that have made clear the entire situation, and called into question the research done on Kraig. Since the "Kraig Bashing" has taken place on more than one forum and several threads, I decided to publicly apologize to Kraig on a thread all its own.
Kraig,
I was wrong! I apologize for jumping on a bandwagon that I hadn't looked into myself. Like I said, you have always been polite and accommodating. I never brought it up, because it never had anything to do with what we had been talking about at the time.
To Everybody Else,
You are welcome to chose what you want to believe. As for myself, I am extremely confident that the sources of my information are unimpeachable. The military service thing is no longer an issue for me. That said, I will give the benefit of the doubt to Kraig in any circumstances. Don't mistake this apology as a change in my position that the Olbers Document as presented was a fraud meant to deceive. We researched it in depth, and we all came to the same conclusion that it was not authentic. I just think he may not have known it was a fake.
.........as an aside, I won't say who my sources are, or exactly what information I was given. I will only say that I am extremely confident that the information I have is correct.
Again, Kraig I apologize - Mike
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