(263)   Wed 20 Aug 97 19:48
By: Fredric Rice
To: All
Re: Bill Cote Strikes Again
St: Local
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Bill Cote just bounced a FileRequest off of The Skeptic Tank's Internet
services for the files which specifically mention his name.

Some of you might recall who this poor guy is -- he's the source behind
the infamously unscientific and utterly idiotic "Mysterious Origins of Man"
hoax which was aired on television something like a year ago.  (It was,
if you can dig it, even _worse_ than Sun Pictures and "The Discovery of
Noah's Ark.  Yes, _worse_ than that hoax.)

After the MOM hoax aired I leaped on him rather like a pack of rabid
wolves might leap upon a helpless chick.  (Crackpots, as you have all
seen here a thousand times, have difficulty responding to polite
inquiry.)

My scientifically proven methodology worked and in an E-Mail he
re-confirmed his committment to self-deception.  (Yes, I was surprised.)

My guess is that he's searching Internet for references to him and is
doing "scientific research" for a sequel to his hoax.

We sure hope so!  

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From ???@??? Fri Aug 20 19:02:22 1997
To: Bill Cote 
From: "Fredric L. Rice" 
Subject: Requested files attached
Cc:
Bcc:
X-Attachments: \TMP\COTE.TXT; i:\mom\SCICOP.DOC;

Here are the files you requested from The Skeptic Tank.  If anything
is missing or there was a problem of some kind, please E-Mail me and
I will see if I can find out what went wrong.  (NOTE: if you did _not_
request any of these files, please let me know so I can instigate the
PVL search to find out who's using your account address.)

NOTE: ZIP files were automatically unzipped before being sent.

Files requested from directory: i:\mom\
    File: COTE.TXT      [From zip file: COTE.ZIP     ] - Part of ZIP
    file [COTE.ZIP] - Bill Cote responds to my inflamatory taunts --
    by pretending he's "Galileo on a mission."

    File: SCICOP.DOC    - My review of Cote's messages sent to SCICOP.


A total of 2 files containing 9010 bytes have been sent.
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