Going in Crop Circles

In a Sept. 7 letter that responded to my Counterpunch article about crop circles (“Circling Wagons in Defense of Alien ‘Crop’ Theory,” Sept. 2), writer Dave Suess ridiculed me for not having more faith in the ingenuity of humankind, while presenting nothing to counter the information I gave to show that there is a crop circle phenomenon that can’t be attributed to people.

I was struck by how the letter illustrated the very point I was making--that the so-called “other side” never makes a case for how crop circles can be human-made, but is shameless in declaring that they are.

In fact, the crop circle conversation has become skewed. Instead of researchers having to prove hoaxers are incapable of making good circles, hoaxers should need to prove they can make them, since the weight of the evidence is that they can’t.

SUZANNE TAYLOR

Los Angeles