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  1. Mauro

    QAnon and Yoga Making Strange Connections

    ...about this, and if one goes into high-level sport this kind of training becomes dominant. PS. I have practiced both Yoga (with some woo included too, which was fun to be honest even if completely unconsequential) and Karate (which is not totally immune to woo too, by the way), and in my...
  2. FatPhil

    Pentagon June 2021 Report on 120+ UAP Incidents

    It reads extremely amateurishly. Plenty of hand-woo-wooving embedded therein too (presented indirectly, they're only reporting that someone else said it, which remains a fact even if the woo-woo itself is debunked). The last but one page piqued my interest - I wonder who the top-1000 space-tech...
  3. T

    Errors in Luis Elizondo's UFO Book "Imminent"

    ...and DoD administration who hold various beliefs that actually cause them to restrict this research. In Elizondo & cos case, they believe these woo things, and they consider it as part of their NatSec beliefs. They also believe that major defense contractors and politicians are also "in" on...
  4. Ann K

    Szydagis' Rebuttal of the "Why no Good UFO Photos" Argument

    UFO believers commonly have the axiom in mind that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", which, while true, fails to note that it is also not "evidence of presence". "Well, it could be true" could also be said of pixies, leprechauns, ghosts, and unicorns, with unicorns being, hands...
  5. LilWabbit

    Claim: Remote Viewing is a Scientifically Proven Technique that Utilizes a Natural Human Ability to Enable Access to Hidden Information

    ...if the skeptics would otherwise have excellent points to impart to anonymous MB readers sincerely looking for sound prosaic explanations to the woo that puzzles them or to varying extents even resonates with them. A sympathetic and compassionate attitude isn't always easy. But many valuable...
  6. FatPhil

    Experts being "gagged"

    I have plenty of evidence that people are not being gagged, as there are more idiots peddling woo-woo to a worldwide audience than I can count. So to change my mind on that matter, have them all mysteriously go away. Please.
  7. jarlrmai

    QAnon and Yoga Making Strange Connections

    Yoga is a potential path to non critical thinking, in some Yoga there is a significant ammount of adjacent woo alongside the real health benefits of stretching and mindfulness that are the main known parts of Yoga. It also has communities that naturally link to all sorts of alternative therapies...
  8. JMartJr

    Flashbulb

    I can't give much of an answer, I lack the knowledge. But given that you were out to have a CE5 moment, would a tumbling or flaring satellite be necessary? Wouldn't any of many sorts of lights in the sky have been enough for the experience? If my brother said "I want to see a tumbling...
  9. Mendel

    Claim: The Plasmoid Unification Model (PUM) of Malcolm Bendall provides "free energy".

    ...appear enigmatic and its explanation – a matter of debate. This seems to say that the explanation for this phenomenon, until 2012, was a bit woo enigmatic, which is why it's hard to debunk the "plasmoids" explanation. This issue has become clearer now: The vortex tube heats the air, which...
  10. Mendel

    Szydagis' Rebuttal of the "Why no Good UFO Photos" Argument

    ...a cookie jar, i.e. they're all bad excuses made up on the spot, barely disguised with some science-y sounding mumbo-jumbo (what metabunk calls "woo"). There's no evidence of UFOs, and no evidence for the excuses "explaining" the absence of evidence. UFOs and aliens make fun and interesting...
  11. LilWabbit

    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    A very warm welcome @Astroexeter, very much looking forward to reading your contributions.
  12. FatPhil

    Plasma Laser Hologram as a possible UFO sighting Explanation

    ...starting point for a discussion. That particular source uses the existence of crop circles to support existence of UFOs, and UFOs as support for woo-woo-generated crop circles. WIth logic as circular as that, how are we supposed to give it any respect? Plus there's the whole...
  13. T

    Kona Blue - AARO Report on the Proposed AAWSAP Successor

    ...us insight into their decision making process irrelated to the topics themselves. They also name a few areas that have had outputs outside the woo factor they were originally researched in. As with the example given of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, this was largely considered...
  14. Z.W. Wolf

    'Non-human Biologics' in space craft

    ...the military, or from any actual program to recover bits of Soviet spaceships or bits of Soviet dogs. It seems to me that this is just general woo, which some people who just happen to be in the military believe. Just as some people in the military believe in Dianetics or Free Energy. He...
  15. LilWabbit

    Szydagis' Rebuttal of the "Why no Good UFO Photos" Argument

    Well put, Mendel. To build on your apt encapsulation: There is no good evidence on UFOs. Why not? Because there aren't any UFOs. There is only poor evidence claimed to show UFOs. Why? Because the claimant so badly wants that there are.
  16. FatPhil

    Plasma Laser Hologram as a possible UFO sighting Explanation

    ...observed in the vicinity.". So I don't think we're referring to a reliable source here. The fact that both one American and one Brit believe some woo-woo doesn't make it a "corroborated". The fact that repeated crop-circle artists have admitted to making some of the patterns that have...
  17. FatPhil

    Meta Materials From UFOs

    Inertial mass reduction is pure woo. There were some (navy?) patents that used the same kinds of words you'd see in something scientific, but as they only had to pass a patent lawyer's gaze, not of them refer to meaningful science. I thought the consensus at the time was that the navy was...
  18. Skalman

    Study in the Modern Journal of Physics claiming that intelligent plasma is the source of many UFO sightings and that NASA is aware of this.

    ...of American Loons describes Joseph as a pseudoscientist and "serious crackpot with a vanity journal".[5] He is an advocate of quantum woo and has argued that plants have consciousness.[2] Plants do not have a nervous system so it is impossible they possess consciousness. Del Gaudio works as...
  19. A

    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    ...some odd things, but never anything that defied the Laws of Physics. As a scientist, I look to explain strange phenomena through science, not "woo". I have just purchased Mick's book, Escaping the Rabbit Hole" and look forward to his advice on dealing with conspiracy theorists. I also look...
  20. Ann K

    Mexico City "bronze" capsule UFO - similar to metapod

    ...But a thing-in-the-sky without any context gives us very little to debunk. No background, no way to judge speed, location, or flight pattern, no statement from the photographer as to his position from which it was filmed - all we are presented with is the woo, when what we need are the facts.
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