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A-DIM: I find myself more and more skeptical of "skeptics." There appears to be as much an industry of "debunking" as there is pseudoscience. And from what I've witnessed here over the last couple of years is many so-called "skeptics" of the ETH are as uninformed and rooted in "belief" as they so often suggest the "woowoos" are, exhibiting high degrees of subjective thinking when considering the ETH.
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Most skeptics I know are willing to accept the possibility - even if a remote one, but don't feel the evidence is particularly compelling. And, to date, not a single
Unidentified Flying Object has ever been postively and unequivocally
Identified as a vehicle from outer space containing intelligent extraterrestrials. Therein, lies the problem. Its great to speculate on the possibiities, but without clear, unequivocal and independently verifiable evidence that
identifies an
unidentified flying object as something of extraterrestrial origin, no one can reasonably conclude we are being visited by E.T.
And yes, invectives like "woowoos" and "crackpots" may suggest bias, but the trouble is "UFOlogy" is full of such characters, from Pru Calabrese, who "remote viewed" a spaceship in the tail of Hale Bopp to Richard Hoagland, who still claims there is a face on Mars. "UFOlogy" sports no standardized methodology and has no standards of proof by which a body of systematically organized evidence may be assembled. Its simply "science" by anecdotes, which isn't science at all. Running around collecting ephemeral "sightings" reports about fuzzy objects in the sky and excusing the lack of any real evidence on so-called government cover-ups, doesn't cut it.
Its not up to the "skeptics" to prove the advocates wrong. Its up to the advocates to prove their right. Those who truly think there is a case to be made need to do a better job of making their case. I'm willing to be convinced with something truly convincing.