A few words from Bernard Haisch (UFOSkeptic.org):
One should be skeptical of both the believers and the scoffers. The negative claims of pseudo-skeptics who offer facile explanations must themselves be subject to criticism. If a competent witness reports having seen something tens of degrees of arc in size (as happens) and the scoffer -- who of course was not there -- offers Venus or a high altitude weather balloon as an explanation, the requirement of extraordinary proof for an extraordinary claim falls on the proffered negative claim as well. That kind of approach is also pseudo-science. Moreover just being a scientist confers neither necessary expertise nor sufficient knowledge. (I wish it did, sigh.) Any scientist who has not read a few serious books and articles presenting actual UFO evidence should out of intellectual honesty refrain from making scientific pronouncements. To look at the evidence and go away unconvinced is one thing. To not look at the evidence and be convinced against it nonetheless is another.
Not exactly an original sentiment, but one that bears near-constant repetition in the face of a scientific community that's willfully compromised its own intellectual integrity for fear of social reprisal.
5 comments:
couldn't have said it better myself.
Fear of social reprisal is part of it...but if you're a scientist, and you want to continue getting paid for your research, where's the money generally coming from? The government. Private funding for research is far and few between, and most research lives on the government dollar. Once you tell people that you're studying UFOs, you probably have to swear off your government funding and hope for enough continuing private funding to live off of. I know there's a large number of scientists out there who fear that.
Do you seriously believe we'd have any kind of "disclosure" in our life times..in the next 30-50 years?
It seems to me it would take a 3rd world war, on the brink of destruction before the government would "play their hand" & ever reveal something..if they did, it would be a new regime for all of us I think?
But where does it leave us, there's no hard proof & the original people who have said this wont come forward, so we're again left with anecdotal etherial nothings. Its so frustrating..
It's not "proof," of course -- but as far as anecdotal evidence of ET hardware goes, it's not exactly insignificant. Perhaps if Haisch were the only qualified scientist with such stories we could safely ignore it. But there are many others -- enough to nake me think we're probably dealing with something physical (if not necessarily extraterrestrial).
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