tommyball
Skilled Investigator
valiens said:I think what's needed is to scrap ufology altogether. Start over. Get some new minds in there from various fields of expertise and fund them. Give them incentive to do real research where the end result won't be a book that requires a narrative structure and a specific point of view be adopted to sell it. Have all of them present their findings in peer-reviewed journals from within their individual fields. If everything looks fine, THEN bring all the pieces together for a book or what have you.
Enough of this "My top secret CIA source who works with aliens told me..." crap.
I agree with you.
Can anyone think of any good recent examples of other subjects or areas of research that were once marginalized like the UFO phenomena and are now mainstream subjects? I know many scientific subjects were once marginalized. Psychology is a young science. Much of theoretical physics is relatively new; of course that subject as a whole does not get a great deal of mainstream attention.
-todd.