Science: The Same Short Thrift With Which You Dismissed Poem by Margaret Alice

When independent researchers
engaged in alternative sciences
with no mainstream leg to stand on
doubt each other’s findings because
their experience is different

I understand why mainstream
scientists prefer hegemony in
tying themselves to one pole of
consensus perspective; when
you postulate that

Humans come from the Pleiades
while doubting Dr David Zinc’s
claim about the link between
the Pleiades and Atlantis
simply because

He used a medium in his research
while you dabble in Egypt and star
maps, you self-righteously reject
his evidence as based on
unacceptable premises

While you blissfully force your
own idiosyncratic premises - that
the Egyptians told a specific story
in their pyramid constructions -
on the same cynical group

Of scientists out there, they simply
hang you by your own shoe-laces,
giving you the same short thrift with
which you dismissed
Dr David Zinc!