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  1. JMartJr

    November 13 2024 Congress hearings

    ...Just skimming through the latter,the vast majority of it is a timeline that tosses out an astonishing array of of conspiracy theories and "woo" claims, from 1947 and Roswell (yes, again/still) forward to 2023 -- I will quote the second to the last one on page 212, it seems to me to capture...
  2. J

    Garry Nolan's Claims of Evidence of Shadow Biosphere

    ...could have been seeded from space, which implies other forms of life could have arisen from the same seeds somewhere else. Which is a lot of woo. Which goes back to the point that if there's no evidence of this form or seed of non-Archaean, non-bacterial life developing into complex life...
  3. D

    UFO Flap - The Big Picture

    ...have just seen a video of the double slit experiment and quantum entanglement and all of a sudden this gives them a free ticket to "the circe de woo world tour". ...instead of reading boring papers or listening to not so easy digestible interviews with actual authorities on the matter and...
  4. Y

    Mick West interview with Naval Aviator and F/A-18 pilot Brian Burke

    There's nothing to wonder here. Kaku has been the go-to "smart physics man who will entertain any woo" for a buck for a long time. Before UFOs, it would be time travel, wormholes, quantum woo, whatever. But the UFO scene is perfect because it is seemingly unending opportunities for attention and...
  5. Mendel

    Meta Materials From UFOs

    ...of cases where people who were persecuted or ostracized for beliefs and ideas that later turned out to be valid has instilled a confidence in woo promoters and pseudoscientists that is difficult to shake. They forget the part where they have to prove themselves right in order to be like Galileo.
  6. J

    Szydagis' point 3: Interstellar travel is too hard

    ...I'm dubious that you can have any of the proposed hand-wavy, fuel's-no-problem interstellar drives and arrive unnoticed. Though the current "woo" argument on reddit seems to be that something could have arrived at some point and begun synthesizing bodies and vessels in some now-giant undersea...
  7. D

    Flashbulb

    ...an answer to the probability question I keep asking - this may be salience bias - but I'm wondering if it's because this is all tied up with woo. If it were reframed, and your child/friend/neighbour said they'd heard of satellite flares, wanted to see one, and asked if they would be able to...
  8. RustamShah

    Tim Phillips lends credence to the existence of anomalous black triangle UFOs

    Appreciate the detailed response. Just to clarify, English is not my first language, so I use a text editor that helps with grammar, spelling, and clarity. It might be using AI in the background, but the content and ideas are entirely mine and not generated automatically. Also worth mentioning...
  9. T

    Tim Phillips lends credence to the existence of anomalous black triangle UFOs

    ...None of those target the public like that, this only works in the public knowledge context. Intelligence services generally do not care about woo if you have access they want, such is what analysis is for. This is why the Soviets for example would explicitly send officers to UFO conventions...
  10. R

    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    ...heyday of the space program and was interested in anything space-related, including news reports of UFOs. In my early teens I explored all the woo du jour: ESP, ancient astronauts, bigfoot, alien encounters, etc. Reading books by Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov when I was in high school clarified...
  11. Ann K

    Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession

    ...of conversation to be avoided if a stranger turns out to be, say, an opponent in politics or religion, an anti-vax conspiracist, a believer in woo, etc. So many pitfalls exist that have already proved detrimental to friendships or families that many of us have withdrawn into our own bubbles...
  12. FatPhil

    Rainbows above the Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle at the Moment of the Queen's Death

    And this year it looks like the omnipotent conductor of world-wide woo selected New York and 9/11 in order to demonstrate how selective he is with his displays: Double rainbow shining over New York City on 9/11 New Yorkers were delighted to witness a double rainbow over New York City on the...
  13. T

    What evidence of aliens would convince skeptics?

    ...- here is the problem. This research happens plenty, the ET hypothesis is falsified and continuously has been. This even happens when the woo crew companies fund their own studies. People hold out on the studies that either a) seek to prove the hypothesis, and come to null results or b) its...
  14. Ann K

    The Congressional UAP Hearings Debrief

    It's not, though. There's a strong thread of woo that runs through a good many of the supporters of alien UFO and beliefs in strange anomalous phenomena. If some people strongly insist (without evidence) upon the reality of alien encounters, the fact that their associates are known to espouse...
  15. Z.W. Wolf

    What is your "red line" that would make you unambiguously and sincerely say with full belief, "Aliens are real and are or have been on Earth"?

    ...they believe it. Second interest has been in solving puzzles. A chew toy for an overactive brain. There have always been threads on simple non-woo subjects. For example: Was It Possible For Trump To Take The Wheel...
  16. Z.W. Wolf

    Claim: Pareidolia is bias

    ...the appeal to pareidolia is a rationalization to justify a cognitive bias. Not the cognitive bias itself. The title of the thread should be "Woo Scientists Once Again Accuse Skeptics of Confirmation Bias." Or perhaps "Galileo - Unwilling Patron Saint of Woo Masters." IMO: In this paper...
  17. Alien Chess Fiend

    'Non-human Biologics' in space craft

    Greer claimed to be one of his sources. Details were posted here by @Amathia
  18. T

    Kona Blue - AARO Report on the Proposed AAWSAP Successor

    ...to be collected against", you'd implement it at a specific time hoping to achieve relatively specific effects. Like, you wouldn't have a whole woo crew running around the media like this that just make it easier to assess the deceptive program is actually just that. It also wouldn't be so...
  19. Mendel

    Luis Elizondo's Claims of Coming UFO Disclosure

    It's a promise of salvation, building up unfounded hope that brings their faction support. UK residents may recall a similar pattern with Brexit, which was supposed to fix the UK's problems, and didn't (but made some worse). US residents may remember MAGA, which fell similarly flat.
  20. FatPhil

    Meta Materials From UFOs

    To horrifically misquote Carl Sagan: "They laughed at [Galileo], but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown" (The original quote uses more modern examples like the Wright brothers rather than Galileo. IIRC.)
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