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  1. jarlrmai

    The Age of Disclosure film

    Greenstreet did a bit more digging about Dietrich, she's a bit more involved in the woo than would initially seem Source: https://x.com/MiddleOfMayhem/status/1945850274717086073?s=20 Her being married to Michael Green is one thing but her reappearances at bigfoot / aliens conferences is another.
  2. Ann K

    Predictive processing frameworks for perception can explain recent drone sightings in the United States

    ...practices like meditation and dark retreats, to investigate their effects on consciousness and well-being In simpler language, they're into woo, so the paper should be read with that in mind. That doesn't invalidate the paper's conclusions, of course, but since it is free of either evidence...
  3. deirdre

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    does it read that way? it was more like 10 or 20 a day. As much as i wanted. (i was super stressed out at the time working with neglected kids..so my brain was in hyperalert mode as i mentioned earlier). i literally just said the same thing. last night i thought i should use gravity as...
  4. Dave51c

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    ...to invoke a call to a higher power and preferred to stay in the realm of science/philosophy, but I do find hand waving this topic away as pure woo to be a lazy argument. But acknowledge it's a woo adjacent area that can get pretty out there pretty fast. How the hell anyone could design a...
  5. JMartJr

    Mick West's Income

    Non-UFO woo must still be out there, if we find it we can post about it. It's been a long time since I've seen anything "ghostly" (or more often claimed as telekinesis these days) where the debunk could be more than saying "Here, here is a link to a video about how to use 'invisible' magician's...
  6. C

    Debunking Humor...

    ...compared with some of the sasquatch stuff that I've read on the internet. Judging from the title and book cover, I'd say our Sasquatch is the woo equivalent of a Made Guy: he's physically imposing, psychic, and has got 'connections' to the UFO crew downtown. He knows what you're thinking at...
  7. Gary C

    Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

    Wow. She shot right past special pleading into psi-woo.
  8. Ann K

    UAP Files: “UFOs: Wikipedia, AI, and the Rise of Fake Experts” video and Substack Article

    ...while none of them - NONE - have shown any evidence at all of being interstellar objects. It makes sense to look for known objects first in any investigation. Add to that the principle of Okham's razor, and I think you'll find that everyday objects and phenomena have an enormous edge over woo.
  9. John J.

    UAP Hearing New Video - Yemen Orb

    Agreed, but that's the internet/ social media for you. At least we have this tiny island of relative sanity, with room for others who might want to find more likely explanations than the purveyors of woo provide.
  10. FatPhil

    What got you interested in UFOs and aliens?

    Probably /Arthur C. Clark's Mysterious World/. Even though it shied away from actual UFO sightings stuff, it softened me towards the weird and the woo. Sci-fi never had that effect on me, I knew it was fiction (showing two episodes back-to-back, and have the start of the latter one not match the...
  11. NorCal Dave

    Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

    Is it me, or does it also create a bit of circular reasoning. Defects can't correlate with bomb tests, so these can't be defects because we think they correlate with bomb tests. They claim some transients correlate with bomb tests, but never offer any evidence of that. A quick look at just...
  12. Mick West

    Tokyo "UFO" lights from 2008

    Or, more charitably, it was simply drifting by, and only (smoothly) transited the frame for those three seconds.
  13. Ann K

    Skywatcher Part II: "Mapping The Unknown"

    Familiarity with the songs, OK. That makes sense. But it's the "imparting wisdom" bit that ventures off into woo-land.
  14. elvenwear

    Elizondo's Methodology for Verifying Sources

    ...caudate-putamen as just one example, I would say his concern with the accurate use of terminology is similar to anyone else in the industry of woo-woo. The original post on metabunk about Lue's comments on the caudate-putamen are here...
  15. JMartJr

    Rep. Luna Requests UAP Video, With a List of Names.

    ...you are) difference between "it is unexplained" and "it is inexplicable" can be played upon with some success by promoters of various flavors of Woo. You have to give it a bit of thought to realize that mundane things can remain unexplained because there is not enough information/evidence to...
  16. Gary C

    Claim: Giza Plateau: discovery of a huge city under the Pyramids

    Woo was a viable business model before the Internet. With streaming, podcasts, donation buttons, and pay-for-clicks advertising it's practically a golden age of bunk.
  17. J

    UAP Hearing New Video - Yemen Orb

    It did bug me that so many mainstream outlets ran the story fairly uncritically... Much to my surprise, NBC was a little more circumspect -- Gadi Schwartz usually embraces alternative explanations.
  18. M

    Baited into Rabbit hole: Mindset, social media and feedback loop.

    I would not use "scientist" to describe people from academia. To some degree, the current academia resembles industry more. If they don't often try ideas and publish new papers, they won't receive funding. People are publishing papers in a crazy way. I understand why some of them are open to...
  19. John J.

    Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

    "Transients" as a label for hypothetical unidentified geosynchronous/ NEO objects is a bit like "orbs"; it's a new bit of woo-ish jargon. I suggest we call them "Clarke hiccups", because (1) Arthur C. Clarke pointed out the usefulness of geosynchronous orbits in the 1940s (2) Hiccups are...
  20. Charlie Wiser

    Telepathy Tapes presentation taped and posted to X and YT

    This is why I don't understand what he's doing. The best conclusion I can draw is that he wants to get more involved in the woo/believer side of things because he's realized that's where the money (or status) is - e.g. for his podcast.
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