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Science vs Scientists vs UFOs We really should flag this usage as unacceptably vague. "Science" is not a person and has no opinion of it's own. "Scientists" is a catchall for a very very large collection of professional disciplines that follow...

Unfortunately, you still can't do a lot even with reliable witness testimony and corroboration, or triangulation with those cases. Especially if the contact was fleeting. I got a good look at what I saw and intentionally tried to focus on it so I...

I sort of agree. We can't rule out that an eyewitness might see something unusual that is objectively there, and is able to give a reasonably accurate description that corresponds to what was there. But without corroborating evidence it's...

I sort of agree. We can't rule out that an eyewitness might see something unusual that is objectively there, and is able to give a reasonably accurate description that corresponds to what was there. But without corroborating evidence it's...

I sort of agree. We can't rule out that an eyewitness might see something unusual that is objectively there, and is able to give a reasonably accurate description that corresponds to what was there. But without corroborating evidence it's...

It's not a bold claim at all. Pais has filed several patents, but the one we've been discussing is US10144532B2, "Craft using an inertial mass reduction device", 28 April 2016, https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en, the one raised and...

Exactly. We looked at fairies and the laws of nature and said: These don't work together, fairies don't exist. They look at UFOs and the laws of nature and say: These don't work together, the NHIs must know more than we do. Why?

I'd say that's largely correct as those "centuries of hindsight" included a lot of what we now take for granted as science and technology. Our current understanding of the laws of nature and the development of human biology and culture have...

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...

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...

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...