Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Saying it again
I just loved Joe Capp's post that is linked right below this one! I remember reading James Carrion's post and being disappointed and also irritated by it for many of the same reasons that Joe mentions. After all, it is very easy to trash Ufology, anyone can do it. Some of us are getting very tired of being called "believers" in the religious sense. I am not a believer taking on faith the thought that strange crafts are flying through the air -- I have seen them and in broad daylight and often with other witnesses. I don't believe they exist -- I know they exist, even if I am not sure they are little men from space. Sometimes you do have to trust and take other people's stories on faith, but that trust is based on knowing such things exist. I do not have a lot of trust for NIDS, so if there is evidence Carrion has against them regarding Skinwalker ranch he needs to bring it out. Of course, I have never had any trust in MUFON either. I could go on, but I won't because I have probably said almost all of it before, Carrion isn't the first to trash UFOlogy and tell us how much better he is than the rest of us.
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Uh-huh, and I was never so reminded as by James Carrion of the metaphoric lecturing sand-grains lecturing adjacent grains of sand. Such Hubris should not go unpunished. Capp has called a righteous shenanigans if I may. g].
Said it before, and will say it again . . . Ufology isn't science, it's social networking.
Yes, some in Ufology have raised it to the level of religious belief. But, the same can be said for ultra right-wing Republicans. There will always be people who jump onto a bandwagon and drive it right over the edge into lunacy.
It isn't the "woo woo" or quasi-religious aspects of Ufology that drive away scientists. Because the phenomenon is so elusive and random (never mind the countless frauds and obvious misidentifications), it can't be adequately quantified and defined by purely "hard science" methodology. Scientists don't know how to design adequate research to prove (or disprove) any theories. So publicly they laugh and walk away, and the mainstream media takes its cue from them.
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