Check it out for laughs...

http://darkmission.blogspot.com/2007/12/de...ting-of-dr.html

One of my non-posted replies (doesn't meet the host's standards):

The issue of my alleged former familiarity with Johnston goes directly to the credibility of accusations against me of unethical conduct, so please bear with me as I don't let this issue go away.

In the opening of 'Empire Strikes Back," Bara claimed: "[B]y sending Ferrari the information on Johnston and questioning his credentials (which Oberg, as a former colleague of Johnston's, knew full well were valid), he has taken an advocacy position in favor of the agency. We certainly hope that NBC News has the journalistic integrity to question why one of their employees is taking a partisan position in a news story he should theoretically be covering."

At the opening of this thread, Bara accused me of trying "to discredit a man he has known for over 30 years, while continuing to pretend he’s never even met Ken Johnston."

Further, "Oberg has also attacked me personally because the press release mentions that Oberg was “a colleague of Johnston’s at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center during the Apollo Program in the 1970’s.”"

Why can't Bara just say that the press release was in error? Why does he have to go through tortuous gyrations over definitions of when the "Apollo program" ended?

He's going to have to give an inch here, since the statement also claims I was "at the Manned Spacecraft Center" with Johnston -- even though Bara noted correctly that the name was changed to the Johnson Space Center in 1973, and I arrived there in 1975. Evidently he insists that 1975 AD came before 1973 AD.

That's no less nonsensical than claiming I was a "colleague" of Johnston, of whom I have no memory ever working with. And THAT leads to the refutation of Bara's accusation that my questioning of Johnston's claimed credentials is evil since I supposedly KNEW (based on non-existent colleague-ness] the credentials were actually valid.

There is nothing "inexplicable" (Bara's word in the top paragraph of this thread) about my persistence in requesting Bara to correct these erroneous statements. Once he stops using my reputation as a punching bag to promote his book, and undoes the attacks published so far, I'll happily go away and leave him to the company he prefers.