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But every time a sighting is reported, the witness MUST be considered in that light. If the report comes from someone who has often made debunked claims before ("cried wolf" so to speak) then his reliability on a new case is in doubt from the...

I would bet, it's free money at this point. The precedent-setter is Philip J. Klass, again, 40 to 50 years ago: The $10,000 offer In 1966, Klass made an offer that stood for the remaining thirty-nine years of his life. By 1974, the offer had...

It's kinda similar to "perpetuum mobiles/free energy gadgets come from people who lack the physics knowledge to understand what they're doing, or hoaxers/hucksters".

So therefore they should be detectable - repeatedly, predicably and objectively. And therefore if they are not detected then we could postulate that absence of evidence is, in that case, evidence of absence , ie non-existence. (Probably).

What's True Some chemical sunscreen ingredients can be absorbed through the skin and detected in blood. That part of the claim is based on real studies by FDA researchers, published in JAMA in 2019 and 2020. What's False However, those studies...

I agree on the whole. But sometimes, some reliable witnesses, may see something weird enough that justifies further analysis. For example is the balloon hypothesis for Fravor’s tic tac actually conclusive? If we ignore the FLIR1 video, which...

Hoax signals are probably an important consideration for anyone involved in SETI. Incidental noise from terrestrial sources at least as much. The discoverers of LGM-1 (pulsar PSR B1919+21), the first pulsar detected, 1967...

That sounds like a reasonable assumption. If it's a simple hoax orchestrated by the reverend himself, it's tempting to think he simply started the exposure, ran into the picture, and stood there for a moment wearing his old cassock. There would...

It's just classic Hitchens' Razor: "We have good photos" has been asserted without evidence, so can also be dismissed without evidence.

Argument from authority fallacy. This site has a history of embarrassing government officials on these cases. See now, I asked you to back up a claim you made. I wanted you to explain what you mean by a "true report". Does that mean you think...

It's just classic Hitchens' Razor: "We have good photos" has been asserted without evidence, so can also be dismissed without evidence.

But every time a sighting is reported, the witness MUST be considered in that light. If the report comes from someone who has often made debunked claims before ("cried wolf" so to speak) then his reliability on a new case is in doubt from the...

Argument from authority fallacy. This site has a history of embarrassing government officials on these cases. See now, I asked you to back up a claim you made. I wanted you to explain what you mean by a "true report". Does that mean you think...

But every time a sighting is reported, the witness MUST be considered in that light. If the report comes from someone who has often made debunked claims before ("cried wolf" so to speak) then his reliability on a new case is in doubt from the...

I did not state anything. Indeed you said (post #31): Now it'd be interesting to know what you actually think, do we have good photos (in which case, obviously, I'd like to know which they are!) or don't we? But yet again, what I wanted to...