Hi - a couple of points.
When I was newly out I didn't believe the 3P on Ron, the drug use, the bigamy, the do as I say, not as I do, drug rotted teeth etc. I was however receptive to 3P on DM, I already had little respect for him.
What changed it for me was reading a post somewhere on the web - about the inaccuracies in All About Radiation - you can't wash off gamma radation etc. I was all WTF? How could he put himself up as an authority on a subject with out boning up on it? Then I rembered the tape references where he says how he napped during those lectures, and his lousy grades in the course. Huhh? The sound of stable data shattering ensued.
Prior to that when I was still in, there was his bit in DMSMH I ran into on the basics, where he says nerve growth is due to physical impacts and is why cave man had bigger brains. What the hell ? So cave men walking into low lying branches,cave entrances and wacking each other on the their heads with clubs gave them bigger brains? Was he joking or was he serious - and if he was serious, OMG!
(You think I am making it up? See p85-86 The cell and the organism)
Then on one of the BC lectures there is this Q & A session where our hero is answering questions from the students - he is so damn arrogant and cold - hell, I thought, how can anybody like him?
Then there is the bit of the radioactive clouds (helatrobis tapes I think) going down the galactic arms engulfing planets with talking things in them. I was wondering if he had a clue how vast the distances between stars was and how ungodly long it would take for the clouds to travel from star system to star system.
It was faux pas like this that started to break down the myth around Mr. Know it all, our buddy, Ron.
But the really amazing thing is how I managed to keep believing those out points, and the only logical thing I can say, is it is a mish mash of truth and lies. I have done some of the otee stuff like exterioze, seen ri's but not at will, and so it is like this shiny trap with mystery glue slathered over both lies and truth that sticks me to it.
Gahhh!
Mimsey, another fly, crawlling out of the web
PS OMG!!! Google DC 8 & DC 7 That was drop dead funny, he mixed them up.