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Re:I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Im... by hourislate on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:29AM (#27355025)
Joe Rogan (Spotify Podcast) had Neil degrasse Tyson on a couple of days ago for a discussion on all the UFO/UAP videos and information. It was interesting how Neil basically tore apart the whole subject. I'm no where near as smart as folks like Neil or Elon and both have dismissed the UFO phenomena as unlikely. Their arguments really are pretty strong but people want to believe there is something more out there.

Anyway, it was a great discussion, Neil is a pleasure to listen to.

Re:I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Im... by gadf on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:21PM (#27364444)
They're both arrogant unfortunately. I thought the views of Neil on UFOs, like the views of Joe on psychics were really low value. They're both engaging in "let's selectively ignore evidence and witnesses to preserve existing biases and our existing preferred beliefs" but neither of them see it. They're a mirror of each other: Neil wants to gaslight on UFOs, and Joe wants to gaslight on psychics. And their big platform and audience everyone laps it up. Really, truly sad. But hey, it's OK. People step towards truth but slowly.