Talk:Robert David Steele

Latest comment: 6 months ago by MartinezMD in topic Attribution for the child slave colony on Mars

Questions on his CIA career edit

You list Robert david steel as CIA. Yet the only source is War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century Described on https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1994-05-01/war-and-anti-war-survival-dawn-21st-century As sloppy and inaccurate. The Italian link voices his claim with no evidence. The daily beast article is on how he was a lying fraud. How did you confirm his employment with the CIA? As previously he was regarded as such a liar his page was deleted by Wikipedia. 2600:E008:58:8BF8:4D2F:38D7:B059:34F6 (talk) 01:40, 15 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

This has been corrected in the lead to align with what the body text actually says, which is "political officer" not "CIA officer". ~Anachronist (talk) 19:05, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Attribution for the child slave colony on Mars edit

Here is what part of this article says:

In an interview by Jones in June 2017, Steele claimed NASA holds a colony on Mars populated by human slaves who were kidnapped as children and sent to the planet. NASA said the claims were false.[1][2]

I don't think it is necessary to say "NASA said" the claims were false. They're just false, and not just false but ludicrously so: no reasonable person with an Internet connection or a library card or who was above the age of 9 could ever believe that. Per WP:INTEXT, policy recommends against giving in-line attribution to things that are obviously true; @MartinezMD: would you consider a self-revert? jp×g🗯️ 23:14, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

I don't think it needs to say this is false. As I mentioned in my edit summary, the notable part is that NASA felt the need to say that it was false. What do you think about that? MartinezMD (talk) 00:05, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ "Accusée par des complotistes, la NASA obligée de nier qu'il y ait des enfants-esclaves sur Mars". Le Monde (in French). July 3, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
  2. ^ "NASA Denies That It's Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars". The Daily Beast. June 30, 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2022.