US Naval pilots "We see UFO everyday for at least a couple of years"

[Fast Eddie D]

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Maybe the photos in the FIRST Book I ever bought, 'Flying Saucers Have Landed'....will turn out to be real?

 

[Brinkman]

Adamski is almost universally acknowledged as being an absolute crank. Russell’s teapot is also rather silly but who am I to upset the easily amused.

 

[Fast Eddie D]

Russell’s teapot is also rather silly

Russell's Teapot is supposed to parody the absurdity of unfalsifiable claims. Taken literally it is of course absurd.

 

[Brinkman]

No, it is silly because the utility of the analogy is to evade one debate in preference of another, namely, whether or not the analogy is cogent.

 

[Fast Eddie D]

Explain to us what an unfalsifiable claim is, with an example.

 

[Fast Eddie D]

Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.

Russell's teapot - Wikipedia

 

[Brinkman]

No offense but my point must have been lost on you, otherwise you wouldn’t be so readily illustrating it.

 

[Brinkman]

You and I both know what an unfalsifiable claim is and no one is disputing such things exist.

 

[Fast Eddie D]

I believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn. Invisible Pink Unicorn - Wikipedia

Prove me wrong.

 

[Fast Eddie D]

You and I both know what an unfalsifiable claim is and no one is disputing such things exist

OK

 

[Fast Eddie D]

I'm fully aware that Russell's Teapot doesn't prove or disprove anything with regards to woo claims. Fair enough?

 

[Brinkman]

Works for me.

To be honest I haven’t been posting in this thread due to my own disillusionment with the OT. I feel like everyone, believers or not, are currently being played for suckers. I know it sounds cynical and paranoid but I’m having a hard time buying into the recent press on the phenomenon. I’ve been spending a lot of time in skeptic circles and the true believers are just too embarrassing for me to put much energy into discussing the topic.

 

[andy2]

Turkey UFO has amazing footage and has not been debunked! 3 years of similar MASS sightings w Video - YouTube

 

[Dibya]

In my village , I not only saw UFO but also beings inside them.

They had blond hair blue eyed , has light brown skin like Indian but had facial structure like East Asian people ,

Their craft made all our electronic equipment go crazy when passed by our neighbor hood back in 2009.

 

[Bonsai]

Seems Prof Brian Cox has caught up with the Astrobiologists on this subject. Life in the universe is mostly slime, bugs and other low life. The astounding odds we have overcome to get here won’t go away - there are very, very few advanced civilizations out there.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf

 

[vacuphile]

Out here as well. If any.

 

[Fast Eddie D]

I’m having a hard time buying into the recent press on the phenomenon.

The press sensationalizes stuff like this. It sells.

true believers are just too embarrassing for me to put much energy into discussing the topic

Absolutely. It's embarrassing.

However, I am very adamant about pushing back against disinformation, and my annoyance with dingbat believers does not stop me. But the real crazies aren't UFO believers, but religious fundamentalists. They are nuttier than squirrel dung, but they do profound damage to society and individuals and I cannot in good conscience stand idle and allow them to do their evil. I push back real hard against that.

 

[Disco-Pete]

Yes, and if you keep up with this, someone's gonna debunk this thread.

 

[Evenharmonics]

And that would be a profound damage to the thread.

 

[Fast Eddie D]

Yes, and if you keep up with this, someone's gonna debunk this thread.

That's what the ignore feature is for. You can ignore the crazies here just like you ignore the drooling lunatics you encounter on the street. There's no reason to encourage them.