Read: Leaf through Stewart Galanor's 1998 book Cover-up. Pay special attention to his methodology, that is, how he selects relevant evidence and deals with its various pieces. Look for signs of predisposition overcoming reason.

Answer these questions. (Keep brief.) These questions are similar to those for Jim Marrs asked in Assignment 14.
1. Go through Cover-up and see how or whether Galanor lays out in advance his principles for dealing with evidence. If possible, summarize these principles and cite page numbers for them.

2. Does Galanor discriminate between the various types of evidence we discussed earlier, particularly between objectively falsifiable and unfalsifiable evidence?

3. Does Galanor acknowledge that circumstantial evidence can never lead to conclusive proof? Does he try to use such evidence to prove or merely to reach high probabilities?

4. Give Galanor’s main conclusions and the major pieces of evidence he uses to support those conclusions.

5. Comment on how carefully Galanor uses evidence and whether you agree that his conclusions were drawn properly from his evidence. Does he actually follow his stated principles? Does he ever seem predisposed toward a particular answer and, if so, does that predisposition ever overcome his reason? Cite any examples you feel would be helpful.

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