"If you can show me any evidence that the Bush administration are aliens, I will be happy to accept your theory."


This implies otherwise: You will "be happy to accept" my theory IF I show you that the Bush Administration are aliens.

Why not if I just show you that it is true? Or do you have an agenda here? What if the Democrats are the aliens? Will you accept it then?




You state:
"It doesn't imply that at all. It doesn't really imply anything, because it doesn't give any information at all about the other half, except that they don't necessarily belong to any of those professions."

Yet, what you said was
"These are, as often as not, people who work or worked in the government, intelligence services, military, air traffic control, aviation, disaster management, engineering and architecture, as well as first responders and other emergency personnel, and other professions that qualify them to be taken seriously, and not marginalized as kooks. "

Is your term "as often as not" to mean something other than 'about half'? If so, could you please provide a dictionary to define what it is that you mean whenever you make a statement?


"and other professions that qualify them to be taken seriously, and not marginalized as kooks." leads one to think that the OTHER half are NOT in those professions, and thus WOULD be qualified to NOT be taken seriously, and to be taken as kooks. Or why else did you state this?