A J Hogue gripe about Randi avoiding him

[Tebtenri]

Hi Scepto's been doing some reading on Mr J Hogue who states on his website:

From said website:
"Bravo Discovery Channel for coming a long way forward from that disaster of a documentary called Nostradamus: A Skeptical Inquiry. Its more deserving descendant, Nostradamus Decoded, went a lot farther to allow skeptics to be challenged. I am grateful for that. However, Discovery Channel still seems to have a front office policy of being pre-wired biased in favor of any skeptical view, and still lets a lot of these lazy and undisciplined skeptics, like Randi, go unchallenged.

Hope in me springs eternal that Discovery will advance the path of science (which means to know) by allowing me in future documentaries they may plan on prophecy to answer every challenge, so that you, the television viewer, can be served best to decide for yourself whether the Randis or the Hogues in this Nostradamus debate have best presented their arguments.

I will give you, my readers, the responses to challenges made on this show as soon as I can in a few weeks. I would like to do it now, however I am very busy in the next few weeks finishing the final edit of Predictions for 2010. Today the rough draft was finished, appropriately on All Soul’s Day because the future of 2010 will shake souls — not only shake them for worse."

J Hogue
http://hogueprophecy.com/?p=678&cpage=1#comment-3527


This chap must be the Benny Hinn of Nostradamus, not only does he use an incorrect translation but uses a Dodgy Biblical reference to validate his claims.
Even going as far as making his own predictions.
One thing for sure Nostradamus is very good for illustrating a poor education.
:boxedin:

[RSLancastr]

I saw the Nostradamus Decoded show this past Sunday. Although Randi and Shermer both appeared briefly, I didn't think that skeptics were given much air time at all, let alone that the show had a "pre-wired bias in favor of any skeptical view."

[Vermonter]

Hogue's not only made his own predictions, but if they come out false he simply changes the prediction in a new edition of his book and doesn't count it.

[Alareth]

However, Discovery Channel still seems to have a front office policy of being pre-wired biased in favor of any skeptical view, and still lets a lot of these lazy and undisciplined skeptics, like Randi, go unchallenged.

"They let the EVIL unbelievers rain on our woo parade"

[Tebtenri]

Nostradmus the Evidence, Colin Wilson:
Nor have Nostradamian studies exactly been edified by John Hogue, author of Nostradamus and the Millennium (1987), The Nostradamus Date Book (1989), and Nostradamus: The New Revelations (1993)• Again neither sceptic Randi nor Nostradamian Lemesurier have any time for Hogue. In the words of Randi's tongue-in-cheek accolade: 'His power of distorting words and twisting anagrams out of shape in highly imaginative ways has seldom been surpassed.'