Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials from UFO Crashes

Re:Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Mat... by gus_massa on Friday December 10, 2021 @07:52PM (#29517323)

Note that being a scientist does not ensure he is right. It only means that he got some training in some scientific field, published a few articles and someone hired him in a scientific position. More details in https://profiles.stanford.edu/garry-nolan

He studied biology, but biology is a very wide area. He studies some tiny area of biology, looking at the profile it looks like some parts of animals and cancer, but nothing about plants IIUC. It looks relevant for the discussion about brain damage, but not for the discussion about weird metals.

Anyway, I don't see anything about these topics in the published peer review papers. So it's just an opinion, like yours or mine. (And anyway, not all peer review articles are good, some journals are very bad, but that's another can of worms.)

He probably has a tenure position, so it's very difficult to fire him. Perhaps he is very good in his area, but has a weird side projects. If he does not make some extremely outraging claims, nobody will fire him.

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Re:Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Mat... by sterlind on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:16PM (#29518082)

Specifically, he seems to specialize in building assay equipment for cellular biology, so there's overlap with physics. He seems like he'd have the skills to analyze weird materials and MRIs.

Entirely possible his weird side projects are wrong, but seeing smart people tackle the weirdness of UFOlogy is fun, even if they're on the wrong track.

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