Ufoology or Easily Hoodwinked and Fantasy Prone

[trainedobserver]

This is part of a larger documentary. Does anyone know the title of the original?

 

[RenaissanceLady]

Weird. When I try to find the same video directly on YouTube, I get a message saying that the video is no longer available as the user had closed his account.

Still, Detective RenaissanceLady comes to the rescue: After Googling "Dr. William Cone", "psychologist" "David Icke" and "alien abduction", I found Season 1, Episode 3 of "Bullshit" by Penn and Teller. The episode was called "Alien Abductions". You have to wait a minute or so before it really begins but it looks the same to me:

 

[Randall]

The word "ufology" is one of those things that suffers from poor and often simplistic definitions e.g. "the study of UFOs". However when one considers the scope of modern ufology in an objective sense, we find that it is much more. Modern ufology clearly goes well beyond the study of UFOs alone to include various aspects of science, history, psychology, journalism, arts and culture and more. And within those areas we have different specialty topics. Examples can be provided for all these things, but suffice it to say that most people here are already familiar with aspects of most of them. So the word "ufology" is in reality, a title ( noun ) that is used as a catchall term in reference to the wide array of subject matter and activities associated with an interest in UFOs.

Because of the above, no particular area of ufology can be said to be ufology per se. Individual components are called by their associated names ( alien abduction, UFO sightings, UFO investigation ... etc. ). Each is a niche that has some relation to the field as a whole by virtue of it involving to some extent something that relates back to the topic of UFOs ( alien craft ). Like medicine, ufology has both quacks and legitimate researchers and reporters, and also like medicine, the presence of quacks doesn't nullify the value of the legitimate research or reporting. For example, the clip at the start presents a number of views by people associated with the topic of ufology. Does that make them all ufologists? No. Simply because a conspiracy theorist combines some aspect of alien intervention with his theory about world domination in no way makes them a ufologist. But their work is relevant to ufology from an objective cultural, political and psychological perspective. And it is this last point that differentiates legitimate ufology from the rest. Legitimate ufology does it's best to be objective and present the work done within its proper context. Examples of this would IMO be Jerome Clark's UFO Encyclopedia, Timothy Good's Beyond Top Secret, and other reference books or material that avoid presenting wild speculation and unsupported theories as facts.

 

[trainedobserver]

Ufoology is my name for the UFO subculture represented by the likes of Barbara Lamb, Andrew Basagio
Alfred Webre, Sean David Morton, and Dan and Marci Bursich.

 

[Randall]

Ufoology is my name for the UFO subculture represented by the likes of Barbara Lamb, Andrew Basagio
Alfred Webre, Sean David Morton, and Dan and Marci Bursich.

Now I see why you are "Paranormally Disenchanted"

 

[Ron Collins]

I like the "Bullshit" show but I think they often talk to the wrong people. Of course, they are there to entertain and what can be more entertaining than filming general nutjobs at a UFO conference? Instead of talking to the sex toy nose probe lady, try actually speaking to Travis Walton?

 

[nameless]

There should definitely be a disclaimer on conference posters like food alergy warnings;

"Caution:may contain nuts"


is there any conferences that are legitimate that arent bs ? not being rhetorical, actually want to know.