Sean Elifritz
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Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
I made some Youtube clips out of uforadio's Michio Kaku interview of Leslie Kean:
I made some Youtube clips out of uforadio's Michio Kaku interview of Leslie Kean:
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Sean Elifritz
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Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Got a kick out of this guy.
Stephen Colbert Bashes UFO Expert Leslie Kean... | Gather
Got a kick out of this guy.
Stephen Colbert Bashes UFO Expert Leslie Kean... | Gather
saucerwench
Skilled Investigator
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
I listened to Leslie last night on Rich Syrett's conspiracy radio show.
[Link no longer available.]
Sounds like she is trying as hard as she can, to cling for dear life, though, to objectivity toward the Ufo phenomenon and 'Disclosure'. I await however, for her to succumb, as they all do, to 'NewAgey'. Why has it not 'got' me? I am minimally educated. (An Esteemed H.S. D-Meritus) (Like how Dolan --barely-- missed Rhodes Scholar, I barely missed a diploma.) However, my whole entire life has been unrelenting chronic adversity, (until recently, now I'm 50) which I guess, makes me cynical.
I listened to Leslie last night on Rich Syrett's conspiracy radio show.
[Link no longer available.]
Sounds like she is trying as hard as she can, to cling for dear life, though, to objectivity toward the Ufo phenomenon and 'Disclosure'. I await however, for her to succumb, as they all do, to 'NewAgey'. Why has it not 'got' me? I am minimally educated. (An Esteemed H.S. D-Meritus) (Like how Dolan --barely-- missed Rhodes Scholar, I barely missed a diploma.) However, my whole entire life has been unrelenting chronic adversity, (until recently, now I'm 50) which I guess, makes me cynical.
trainedobserver
Paranormally Disenchanted
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Oh geez! Kaku actually said "Swamp Gas." Surely he knows the shameful legacy of that explanation. Maybe not.
Oh geez! Kaku actually said "Swamp Gas." Surely he knows the shameful legacy of that explanation. Maybe not.
Ezechiel
Paranormal Adept
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
The article is 100 % wrong lol
First of all, Leslie Kean is not a UFO expert.. she's a journalist addressing a subject.
Second, Colbert did not bash Leslie Kean
The article is 100 % wrong lol
First of all, Leslie Kean is not a UFO expert.. she's a journalist addressing a subject.
Second, Colbert did not bash Leslie Kean
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
And third - she did not said that O'Hare "video is all over the web".
She was refering towards articles-pieces that covered event at the time and that are available on the web (Chicago Tribune articles, NARCAP report etc etc).
Article is flawed from start to finish - altough interesting for archive purposes from the perspective of social sciences and overstaments based on statements that were not overstated
The article is 100 % wrong lol
First of all, Leslie Kean is not a UFO expert.. she's a journalist addressing a subject.
Second, Colbert did not bash Leslie Kean
And third - she did not said that O'Hare "video is all over the web".
She was refering towards articles-pieces that covered event at the time and that are available on the web (Chicago Tribune articles, NARCAP report etc etc).
Article is flawed from start to finish - altough interesting for archive purposes from the perspective of social sciences and overstaments based on statements that were not overstated
Angel of Ioren
Friendly Skeptic
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
The article was terrible, I don't think he even paid attention to the interview. I don't necessarily agree with Kean in that Extra Terrestrials are responsible for these UFO sightings, but this guy should do a little more research before writing anything.
The article was terrible, I don't think he even paid attention to the interview. I don't necessarily agree with Kean in that Extra Terrestrials are responsible for these UFO sightings, but this guy should do a little more research before writing anything.
saucerwench
Skilled Investigator
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
This morning, I was preparing pizza for breakfast. Actually more, brunch, I'd say. Turned my little AM radio on to -- WGN-- . IT'S LESLIE KEAN again! That girl is makin the rounds. You go girl! I like her.
So, here's the link. Scroll down to podcasts.
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/mikemcconnell/
This morning, I was preparing pizza for breakfast. Actually more, brunch, I'd say. Turned my little AM radio on to -- WGN-- . IT'S LESLIE KEAN again! That girl is makin the rounds. You go girl! I like her.
So, here's the link. Scroll down to podcasts.
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/mikemcconnell/
Skymon876
Paranormal Adept
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Another Leslie Kean article on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/ufos-on-the-record-leslie_n_714733.html#postComment
Another Leslie Kean article on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/ufos-on-the-record-leslie_n_714733.html#postComment
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Yep it is archived. Host has even made some comments before and after the interview that were not inside official podcast. I am just editing the recording to include those references too.
She is guest almost every day somewhere and it is getting hard to keep up.
Yep it is archived. Host has even made some comments before and after the interview that were not inside official podcast. I am just editing the recording to include those references too.
She is guest almost every day somewhere and it is getting hard to keep up.
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Latest article of one and only Billy Cox:
Audio: http://media.rawvoice.com/arewealone/traffic.libsyn.com/arewealone/AWA_10-11-15.mp3
Source: Weird scenes inside the gold mine De Void - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota, FL - Archive
November 19th, 2010 04:46pm
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
by Billy Cox
The SETI Institute’s podcast interview with journalist Leslie Kean on Monday should be Exhibit A in the case to disqualify it from any future American media discussions on UFOs. That won’t happen, of course, but if you’re on the fence about SETI’s mind set, you need to give this a serious listen. When it comes to sophistry, SETI’s “Skeptic Check: The Saucer’s Apprentice” is stone-cold gold.
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak can talk all day about fake Hollywood UFOs but makes no room for the well-documented Belgian wave/CREDIT: top-10-list.org
Hosted by astronomer Seth Shostak, the SETI thing — also known as “Our Monthly Look at Critical Thinking” — was 50 minutes of mostly rehash bemoaning the lack of UFO evidence to study. It featured the predictable reassurances of experts like Phil “Bad Astronomy” Plait and Skeptical Inquirer managing editor Benjamin Radford, alongside Harvard alien abduction skeptic Susan Clancy. There was also an attempt to nudge Indiana University folklorist/abduction researcher Thomas Bullard into the skeptic’s corner, but alien abduction is another discussion altogether.
What made the session noteworthy was its invitation to Kean, whose skillfully presented UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record confronts debunkers with their most formidable challenge in recent memory. But it became immediately clear that Shostak (“I have an open mind”) not only wasn’t interested in evidence, he probably hadn’t bothered to read the book.
In his subsequent discussion with Radford, Shostak stated: “The other argument that’s frequently made is that scientists simply dismiss this phenomenon out of hand, that they won’t look, and this is one of the arguments in the new book by Leslie Kean … that there may be something real here and nobody will look at it …”
“Well, there’s a couple of errors right there,” Radford replied. “First of all, UFO sightings have been investigated. The claim that the U.S. government has never looked into these things is patently false. They have looked into these things …”
Whoa, time out. Kean mentioned Project Blue Book, the USAF study, in On the Record. Who claimed Uncle Sam “has never looked into these things”? Nobody. Except maybe Radford. Shostak, who didn’t bother to correct him, is a clever guy who really knows how to bait the hook. Here’s how he opened the Q&A with Radford:
“Ben, in your long career as someone who has investigated UFOs and sorted through the evidence, has there ever been a case that convinced you that aliens have visited the planet?”
Who said anything about aliens? Kean’s book dealt with an extraterrestrial hypothesis — the hypothesis that keeps SETI in business — but as she told Shostak earlier on the show, “I’m not even willing to assume that these are aliens.” On the Record deals with radar data, military reports, analysis of plant and soil damage, photo analysis, etc. Reviewing the data doesn’t amount to endorsing aliens. Shostak knows that. And yet, his tortured contortions to avoid said evidence are becoming cartoonish.
“You say a lot of them are disc-shaped,” he countered to Kean, “but isn’t the fact that we call them flying saucers, that we expect them to be disc-shaped, simply due to a reporter’s error back in 1947, when Kenneth Arnold … said he saw objects that moved across the sky like saucers skipping in water, he wasn’t describing the shape of course, he was describing the motion, and ever since, people have seen saucers — that strikes me as a little odd.”
Kean corrected him by mentioning the multiple shapes on record, and added that the USAF coined the UFO term for accuracy’s sake. Shostak was all over the board, even invoking Carl Jung’s collective unconscious as a possible explanation for abductions without mentioning how the Swiss psychoanalyst ultimately concluded UFOs had a physical component that could not be confined to symbolic projections.
Kean was interviewed for half an hour, knowing in advance their discussion would be trimmed for length. Two UFO cases came up: the 2006 Chicago O’Hare incident, and the 1989-90 Belgian triangle wave. The latter involved an F-16 scramble, radar data, detailed photo analysis, and a military press conference assembled by the colonel in charge of the Air Force investigation, who would later become a Major General . You don’t need a crystal ball to figure out which incident got sliced out of Kean’s nine-minute segment.
The Belgian investigation, “which included a group of university scientists working on it outside of the government,” Kean wrote in an e-mail to De Void, “would have made a strong case for the listeners as to the genuine mystery here. The O’Hare case does not have the same level of gravitas because it was not repeated, and because it didn’t involve an official investigation and a report by a Major General, who had worked closely with scientists over an extended period.”
Shostak, naturally, had an explanation for everything. “Our choice of which parts of each interview to run were based on using the most compelling and clear stories,” he e-mailed De Void. “I think that O’Hare won out over the Belgian wave because of its immediacy, fame, and relevancy to our broadcast audiences. It certainly wasn’t an attempt to ‘load the dice’ in any way I can assure you.”
Maybe the weirdest part of “Our Monthly Look at Critical Thinking” was the kicker, reserved for a discussion of the best Hollywood ET spacecraft. For eight fetish-like minutes, Shostak and sidekick Molly Bentley detailed the special properties and features of the make-believe hardware in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “District 9,” “Independence Day,” and 1953’s “War of the Worlds.”
De Void asked flat out if Shostak had actually read Kean’s book. Or the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena’s analysis of the O’Hare incident (a former NASA guy led the study). Or, for that matter, MUFON’s radar-saturated report on the 2008 Stephenville incient.
No reply yet on those questions. But we’ll keep you posted.
Latest article of one and only Billy Cox:
Audio: http://media.rawvoice.com/arewealone/traffic.libsyn.com/arewealone/AWA_10-11-15.mp3
Source: Weird scenes inside the gold mine De Void - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota, FL - Archive
November 19th, 2010 04:46pm
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
by Billy Cox
The SETI Institute’s podcast interview with journalist Leslie Kean on Monday should be Exhibit A in the case to disqualify it from any future American media discussions on UFOs. That won’t happen, of course, but if you’re on the fence about SETI’s mind set, you need to give this a serious listen. When it comes to sophistry, SETI’s “Skeptic Check: The Saucer’s Apprentice” is stone-cold gold.
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak can talk all day about fake Hollywood UFOs but makes no room for the well-documented Belgian wave/CREDIT: top-10-list.org
Hosted by astronomer Seth Shostak, the SETI thing — also known as “Our Monthly Look at Critical Thinking” — was 50 minutes of mostly rehash bemoaning the lack of UFO evidence to study. It featured the predictable reassurances of experts like Phil “Bad Astronomy” Plait and Skeptical Inquirer managing editor Benjamin Radford, alongside Harvard alien abduction skeptic Susan Clancy. There was also an attempt to nudge Indiana University folklorist/abduction researcher Thomas Bullard into the skeptic’s corner, but alien abduction is another discussion altogether.
What made the session noteworthy was its invitation to Kean, whose skillfully presented UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record confronts debunkers with their most formidable challenge in recent memory. But it became immediately clear that Shostak (“I have an open mind”) not only wasn’t interested in evidence, he probably hadn’t bothered to read the book.
In his subsequent discussion with Radford, Shostak stated: “The other argument that’s frequently made is that scientists simply dismiss this phenomenon out of hand, that they won’t look, and this is one of the arguments in the new book by Leslie Kean … that there may be something real here and nobody will look at it …”
“Well, there’s a couple of errors right there,” Radford replied. “First of all, UFO sightings have been investigated. The claim that the U.S. government has never looked into these things is patently false. They have looked into these things …”
Whoa, time out. Kean mentioned Project Blue Book, the USAF study, in On the Record. Who claimed Uncle Sam “has never looked into these things”? Nobody. Except maybe Radford. Shostak, who didn’t bother to correct him, is a clever guy who really knows how to bait the hook. Here’s how he opened the Q&A with Radford:
“Ben, in your long career as someone who has investigated UFOs and sorted through the evidence, has there ever been a case that convinced you that aliens have visited the planet?”
Who said anything about aliens? Kean’s book dealt with an extraterrestrial hypothesis — the hypothesis that keeps SETI in business — but as she told Shostak earlier on the show, “I’m not even willing to assume that these are aliens.” On the Record deals with radar data, military reports, analysis of plant and soil damage, photo analysis, etc. Reviewing the data doesn’t amount to endorsing aliens. Shostak knows that. And yet, his tortured contortions to avoid said evidence are becoming cartoonish.
“You say a lot of them are disc-shaped,” he countered to Kean, “but isn’t the fact that we call them flying saucers, that we expect them to be disc-shaped, simply due to a reporter’s error back in 1947, when Kenneth Arnold … said he saw objects that moved across the sky like saucers skipping in water, he wasn’t describing the shape of course, he was describing the motion, and ever since, people have seen saucers — that strikes me as a little odd.”
Kean corrected him by mentioning the multiple shapes on record, and added that the USAF coined the UFO term for accuracy’s sake. Shostak was all over the board, even invoking Carl Jung’s collective unconscious as a possible explanation for abductions without mentioning how the Swiss psychoanalyst ultimately concluded UFOs had a physical component that could not be confined to symbolic projections.
Kean was interviewed for half an hour, knowing in advance their discussion would be trimmed for length. Two UFO cases came up: the 2006 Chicago O’Hare incident, and the 1989-90 Belgian triangle wave. The latter involved an F-16 scramble, radar data, detailed photo analysis, and a military press conference assembled by the colonel in charge of the Air Force investigation, who would later become a Major General . You don’t need a crystal ball to figure out which incident got sliced out of Kean’s nine-minute segment.
The Belgian investigation, “which included a group of university scientists working on it outside of the government,” Kean wrote in an e-mail to De Void, “would have made a strong case for the listeners as to the genuine mystery here. The O’Hare case does not have the same level of gravitas because it was not repeated, and because it didn’t involve an official investigation and a report by a Major General, who had worked closely with scientists over an extended period.”
Shostak, naturally, had an explanation for everything. “Our choice of which parts of each interview to run were based on using the most compelling and clear stories,” he e-mailed De Void. “I think that O’Hare won out over the Belgian wave because of its immediacy, fame, and relevancy to our broadcast audiences. It certainly wasn’t an attempt to ‘load the dice’ in any way I can assure you.”
Maybe the weirdest part of “Our Monthly Look at Critical Thinking” was the kicker, reserved for a discussion of the best Hollywood ET spacecraft. For eight fetish-like minutes, Shostak and sidekick Molly Bentley detailed the special properties and features of the make-believe hardware in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “District 9,” “Independence Day,” and 1953’s “War of the Worlds.”
De Void asked flat out if Shostak had actually read Kean’s book. Or the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena’s analysis of the O’Hare incident (a former NASA guy led the study). Or, for that matter, MUFON’s radar-saturated report on the 2008 Stephenville incient.
No reply yet on those questions. But we’ll keep you posted.
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Leslie Kean was interviewed for Rob Simcox's show "Paranormal Cafe" on January 7, 2011, where she talked about updates after release of her book "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials go on the Record".
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This is the download link:
http://tinyurl.com/4px9qn9
Most interesting part of the interview you can find on following minutes:
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- from 15:17 to 23:21 min.
Leslie is talking about production of new documentary based on her book. Documentary is comissioned by History Channel and it is filmed by production company "Break Thru Films". Leslie has returned from 2-week filming from Europe. During production she visited Belgium where first hand witnesses of Belgium Wave are interviewed (police officers, F-16 pilot, colonel Andre Amond, etc)
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- from 35:09 to 40:10 min
Leslie is talking what is happening with her projects where she is trying to bring the change together with her supporters*using book as a tool.
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Best Wishes
Leslie Kean was interviewed for Rob Simcox's show "Paranormal Cafe" on January 7, 2011, where she talked about updates after release of her book "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials go on the Record".
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This is the download link:
http://tinyurl.com/4px9qn9
Most interesting part of the interview you can find on following minutes:
*
- from 15:17 to 23:21 min.
Leslie is talking about production of new documentary based on her book. Documentary is comissioned by History Channel and it is filmed by production company "Break Thru Films". Leslie has returned from 2-week filming from Europe. During production she visited Belgium where first hand witnesses of Belgium Wave are interviewed (police officers, F-16 pilot, colonel Andre Amond, etc)
*
- from 35:09 to 40:10 min
Leslie is talking what is happening with her projects where she is trying to bring the change together with her supporters*using book as a tool.
*
Best Wishes
Kandinsky
Curious Cat
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
She's also done a good interview with Dave Twichell...http://whfr.fm/station/programs/whfr-forum/podcast/2011/01/04
Direct right click save as...http://whfr.fm/sites/default/files/whfr-forum-2011-01-04.mp3
She's also done a good interview with Dave Twichell...http://whfr.fm/station/programs/whfr-forum/podcast/2011/01/04
Direct right click save as...http://whfr.fm/sites/default/files/whfr-forum-2011-01-04.mp3
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Astronomer Dr. Derrick Pitts invited Leslie Kean to talk at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute.
Original text:
“National Astronomy Day
Meet author Leslie Kean!
Saturday, May 7 @ 1:15 in Musser Demonstration Theater
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record – Best-selling author and investigative journalist Leslie Kean pulls back the curtain on the incredible occurrences of unexplained behavior by unknown objects over many decades, and the results are astonishing. Throughout, she presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects—metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to defy the laws of physics—actually exist. No one yet knows what these objects are, even though they affect aviation safety and possibly national security. For these reasons and many others, Kean has concluded that the UFO problem must be more widely recognized and ultimately solved through an unbiased scientific investigation. Kean joins chief astronomer Derrick Pitts on Saturday, May 7 for a reading and discussion of her landmark book, which moves us toward a goal of properly addressing this worldwide mystery. Book-signing to follow.”
Astronomer Dr. Derrick Pitts invited Leslie Kean to talk at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute.
Original text:
“National Astronomy Day
Meet author Leslie Kean!
Saturday, May 7 @ 1:15 in Musser Demonstration Theater
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record – Best-selling author and investigative journalist Leslie Kean pulls back the curtain on the incredible occurrences of unexplained behavior by unknown objects over many decades, and the results are astonishing. Throughout, she presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects—metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to defy the laws of physics—actually exist. No one yet knows what these objects are, even though they affect aviation safety and possibly national security. For these reasons and many others, Kean has concluded that the UFO problem must be more widely recognized and ultimately solved through an unbiased scientific investigation. Kean joins chief astronomer Derrick Pitts on Saturday, May 7 for a reading and discussion of her landmark book, which moves us toward a goal of properly addressing this worldwide mystery. Book-signing to follow.”
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Dr. Derrick Pitts interviewed on CNN (October 1st 2010):
Credits for the link info goes to André Skondras...
Dr. Derrick Pitts interviewed on CNN (October 1st 2010):
Credits for the link info goes to André Skondras...
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Source: The Philly Post
STEVE VOLK E.T., PHONE DERRICK PITTS
With his new stance on UFOs, the Franklin Institute astronomer would be happy to take your call
Posted on 6/28/2011 at 8:37AM
Franklin Institute astronomer Derrick Pitts is one of this country’s leading scientific stars. He’s been named one of the Top 50 African-American research scientists, and he’s a media force, having appeared on MSNBC, The Colbert Report and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and hosted his own local weekly radio show on WHYY. So why, exactly, is he endorsing a book that is, well, pro-UFO?
Science is looking for ET in microbes these days—not via strange lights in the sky. But Pitts says the book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean, pointed out to him by a colleague, motivated him to adopt a more … curious viewpoint. “I had the view, too, that UFOs were seen by hicks,” he admits. “But in this book you had really credible people reporting these experiences, and while I have no hard data to say what they report is an absolutely true experience, I came to think the stigma surrounding the subject is unfortunate.”
For the record, what Pitts endorses is the “unidentified” aspect of an unidentified flying object. “I have never seen a UFO myself,” he says, “and I am not saying that UFOs are ET spacecraft. I am saying [that] here, there is some mystery, and we should be able to address it scientifically, without all the stigma involved.”
Pitts’s endorsement will run on the paperback edition, which comes out in August, and he knows the stigma surrounding those three letters “UFO” could taint him in the eyes of some. Just saying there’s something worth looking at is usually regarded as verboten. “I don’t really care,” he says. “Because that’s not real science. The scientific viewpoint is to admit when we don’t know something and look for answers.”
This article originally appeared in the July 2011 issue of Philadelphia magazine.
Source: The Philly Post
STEVE VOLK E.T., PHONE DERRICK PITTS
With his new stance on UFOs, the Franklin Institute astronomer would be happy to take your call
Posted on 6/28/2011 at 8:37AM
Franklin Institute astronomer Derrick Pitts is one of this country’s leading scientific stars. He’s been named one of the Top 50 African-American research scientists, and he’s a media force, having appeared on MSNBC, The Colbert Report and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and hosted his own local weekly radio show on WHYY. So why, exactly, is he endorsing a book that is, well, pro-UFO?
Science is looking for ET in microbes these days—not via strange lights in the sky. But Pitts says the book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean, pointed out to him by a colleague, motivated him to adopt a more … curious viewpoint. “I had the view, too, that UFOs were seen by hicks,” he admits. “But in this book you had really credible people reporting these experiences, and while I have no hard data to say what they report is an absolutely true experience, I came to think the stigma surrounding the subject is unfortunate.”
For the record, what Pitts endorses is the “unidentified” aspect of an unidentified flying object. “I have never seen a UFO myself,” he says, “and I am not saying that UFOs are ET spacecraft. I am saying [that] here, there is some mystery, and we should be able to address it scientifically, without all the stigma involved.”
Pitts’s endorsement will run on the paperback edition, which comes out in August, and he knows the stigma surrounding those three letters “UFO” could taint him in the eyes of some. Just saying there’s something worth looking at is usually regarded as verboten. “I don’t really care,” he says. “Because that’s not real science. The scientific viewpoint is to admit when we don’t know something and look for answers.”
This article originally appeared in the July 2011 issue of Philadelphia magazine.
Randall
J. Randall Murphy
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Hey Paul,
What do you think would make a difference at the end of the day that we ( ufologists, writers and people in general ) can do?
j.r.
Hey Paul,
What do you think would make a difference at the end of the day that we ( ufologists, writers and people in general ) can do?
j.r.
Angel of Ioren
Friendly Skeptic
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
Paul does not post on this forum anymore, although I wish he still did - he has a great approach to the subject.
Paul does not post on this forum anymore, although I wish he still did - he has a great approach to the subject.
Leslie Kean to take on Stephen Colbert!
But!!! That is a good question, and something that should be a topic of its own. (I think)- It would tie in with the young(er) generation not being interested in the field too- Something I have been working on- (well, trying to anyway) is setting up "real" citizen-open-science projects- based in "real" science. It kinda kills two birds with one stone. On one hand you get 'kids' interested in science, AND UFO/UAP in general, On the other you (we as a community) get some real science done. Sometimes, I feel like I am pounding my head against a brick wall though, it seems many of the people I have talked to are either so far gone into ufo-land that they feel it a waste of time to legitimately study the field- and then there are the überskeptics who too, feel it a waste of time. And then there are the story tellers, which serve a purpose, (and perhaps an important one) but they are not actually furthering scientific inquiry, perhaps inspiring it, but definitely not furthering it. So, a pluck away in a darkened office reading, and reading trying to find out what, if anything has been done, and what it proved (or didn't) -and spin a few thinking pieces here: Gemini 13. Perhaps, one day the perfect set of experiments will come and slap me across the face: until then though, I am stuck trying to figure out "how" to test the MODs assertion that the 5% of UFO/UAP left unexplained are some sort of ionized / magnetic cloud. Any ideas?
But!!! That is a good question, and something that should be a topic of its own. (I think)- It would tie in with the young(er) generation not being interested in the field too- Something I have been working on- (well, trying to anyway) is setting up "real" citizen-open-science projects- based in "real" science. It kinda kills two birds with one stone. On one hand you get 'kids' interested in science, AND UFO/UAP in general, On the other you (we as a community) get some real science done. Sometimes, I feel like I am pounding my head against a brick wall though, it seems many of the people I have talked to are either so far gone into ufo-land that they feel it a waste of time to legitimately study the field- and then there are the überskeptics who too, feel it a waste of time. And then there are the story tellers, which serve a purpose, (and perhaps an important one) but they are not actually furthering scientific inquiry, perhaps inspiring it, but definitely not furthering it. So, a pluck away in a darkened office reading, and reading trying to find out what, if anything has been done, and what it proved (or didn't) -and spin a few thinking pieces here: Gemini 13. Perhaps, one day the perfect set of experiments will come and slap me across the face: until then though, I am stuck trying to figure out "how" to test the MODs assertion that the 5% of UFO/UAP left unexplained are some sort of ionized / magnetic cloud. Any ideas?