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Why do these folks demand disclosure if they can just summon aliens any time they want?

Don't get me wrong: I know that all the fanatics & grifters will still yell: "THEY DIDN'T RELEASE THE BEST, SECRET ONES!!" but I can't help but feel that--overall--this chapter of UFO history will turn out to be a good thing. Sure, the...

Agreed! Nor do I. I do think that I have to acknowledge that error is possible, and that since we know human error occurs and don;t know if aliens or time travelers or being from other dimensions, human error is more likely, even if unproven...

For that to be effective, you'd have to duplicate exactly the thing they were claiming was anomalous. If you simply go there and record some Starlink satellites, they can still claim that what they saw was different from what you recorded...

Agreed! Nor do I. I do think that I have to acknowledge that error is possible, and that since we know human error occurs and don;t know if aliens or time travelers or being from other dimensions, human error is more likely, even if unproven...

Nothing. Anybody close to the spot?

Interestingly, one of the standard ways to reply to a Gish Gallop is to offer the galloper the opportunity to select their strongest point and we'll talk about that one first. This video dump of nothingburgers is essentially a Gish Gallop, this...

The real question is, "who promised you these would be significant? wouldn't it be best to stop listening to these people?"

My basic idea is that a lack of data in unexplained cases is precisely where scientific curiosity should begin, rather than a reason for dismissal. It is understandable that many prefer to dismiss these cases because the alternative is often...

Agreed! Nor do I. I do think that I have to acknowledge that error is possible, and that since we know human error occurs and don;t know if aliens or time travelers or being from other dimensions, human error is more likely, even if unproven...

My basic idea is that a lack of data in unexplained cases is precisely where scientific curiosity should begin, rather than a reason for dismissal. It is understandable that many prefer to dismiss these cases because the alternative is often...

Were these the premises of the analogy? Or the analogy by virtue of being an analogy is not a perfect comparison?

Where this bag of 100 marbles analogy falls down is that after the 99th black marble is drawn, we shouldn't be calculating the odds of the 100th one being a different colour marble. We should be calculating the odds of it not being a marble at...

That seems like a perfectly honest assessment of the situation. All you have is witness testimony in most situations. You can hope for testable physical evidence to become available. It is possible to categorize witness descriptions by shape...