tyder001
Paranormal Adept
Tyder,
If we don't police our own we are complicit in their failings. It is a simple matter to investigate the credibility of various people. There are not that many "scientists" in this study. Most are laypeople with various levels of academic and intellectual strength that take on different aspects of the study. If we don't discriminate and focus, concentrate on what is truly knowledge vs speculative nonsense, sloppy research, misinformation, disinformation and cons we will get nowhere...
If people are being lied to for money, I will eat those folks with fava beans and nice Chianti. They are not "our own" and do damage to the real efforts to get to the bottom of this... Even in mainstream science there is debate and peer review and most of it is at least as nasty as what goes on in UFOlogy every day... I think its a sign of life and health that its happening...
I see your point. It's just that (even if you throw this thread out cause I do understand what you are trying to do.) Still, it just seems like the "field" is filled with infighting and so much caricature that it can't possibly hope to be taken serously. However, you do make good points about mainstream science. There is always infighting when you have talented people and big egos and big money grants on the line. However, I still say (I know it pisses many off here) not everything lends itself to a test tube. Not that we shoulnd't try to find the correct sceince to study it ( we should) but that we need to understand the limitations of what we now know. I have had some "paranormal" experience that some "science" fans will say "can't happen" It/they did! But, I could'nt "manifest" em on cue so in some ways they can't (with the limited knowledge we now have) be proven. Still, I cringe when people say "science has proven/disproven" such things as spritual experience. I don't believe in men/wome from space. But, I find the whole "abduction" sceneiro compelling and people like Karla Turner (I think I got that name right) and some others who have posted here very thought provoking. Maybe something spritual or other worldy is going on. Maybe not. I honestly don't know.