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From the page: “6.24.6 The First Victim of the Cosmic Inquisition
This past May, a very special, yet entirely somber, anniversary tiredly trekked across all of our calendars unnoticed, save for a few regretful or disappointed glances dreaming of what might have been. May 9th marked the seventh year since the demise, a part from a few sparse internet broadcasts between 2000 and 2002, of Michael Corbin’s nationally syndicated talk show The Paranet Continuum. Taking to the air in April of 1994 after five previous years of internet bulletin board service, Paranet was one of the many contenders in the early late-night paranormal talk radio race and like most of them the predominate topic of interest was UFOs. Corbin helped forge the Paranet Information Service after experiencing his own unexplainable sighting, equally providing information as he was trying to puzzle out his own conclusion. Sadly, Michael Corbin made the mistake of making like Plato’s Socrates and following the evidence where it led him, even unto his demise, in this case at the hands of a rabid Ufological orthodoxy.
As Corbin’s program progressed, Paranet gradually began developing a critical approach to Ufology, which they dubbed “skeptical believer.” Corbin increasingly weeded out flash and flamboyant tales of alien encounters Art Bell, back in his hyper heyday, would have had a field day with. December 8th of 1996 marked an irreversible course for Corbin. Corbin interviewed Alan Hale, co discoverer of the Hale-Bopp comet, and took Art Bell and Linda Moulton Howe to task. For months, Linda Howe had appeared on Bell’s show with reports and alleged evidence and scientists to prove an unidentified flying object was following comet Hale-Bop. Howe’s fraudulent reporting (for a recent example, see Howe’s early endorsement of Dan Bursch in early 2004) and Bell’s sensationalism played no small part in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicide. Hale vehemently denied Howe’s reporting, thoroughly debunked her alleged evidence, and explained just why Howe and Bell’s sensational story was impossible. Corbin called Bell out, challenging Bell’s credibility, and in some small way his manhood. Three months later, Corbin hosted a round table discussion on the Heaven’s Gate cult’s suicide and the antics of Howe and Bell after the passage of the comet. During the show, Corbin took calls, occasionally greeting none too happy Bell listeners distraught over the potential of Corbin shattering their little paradigm of Art Bell as the courageous host breaking through the conspiracy and Linda Howe as the intrepid reporter uncovering startling evidence of the “space brothers,” some going to far as to incriminate Linda though absolving Bell, saying Art never endorsed her statements. Corbin succeeded in crossing the unsaid line in Ufology, the thin line denoting the outerlimits of acceptable Ufology. Oh, why not just be blunt with it? The thin line denoting the boundary which should you so cross you risk violently disrupting a scarcely tenable construction of reality. Corbin crossed the line, and he found himself chased by everyone and his cousin vying for telepathic communication with their starbrother. Corbin, however, had his gloves off.
Michael Corbin was well aware of the line he crossed and everyone he would upset, thankfully, he didn’t back down. Corbin researched the phenomenon for himself, indeed, he probably researched it better than most of Ufology’s consumers, and he reached a hypothesis different from the most popular in the culture. Corbin, muck like Jaquees Valle, question the extra-terrestrial origins of the phenomenon and gradually became convinced UFOs were little more than an attempt at mind control, largely due to the affinities between alleged UFO encounters and material garnered through investigating various mind control programs such as MK Ultra, often better known by one of its subsidiaries, Project Monarch………….
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