@elonmusk There's a very very fine balance. You can be homeless, yet still deserve the right to be left alone, without being placed in an asylum and forcefully medicated into compliance ...
Yeah…nah.
Here’s what I think is happening instead.
I haven’t wanted to say this, but there is a problem with organized Skepticism even more than conspiracy theories. My claim is that from hard evidence NOT ONE of the following is an extraordinary claim:
The CIA not only gathers intelligence but kills people, violates rights, gaslights and evades scrutiny and oversight.
The U.S. hides bioweapons programs.
The U.S. engages in regime change through charity and aid programs.
We in the U.S. medically experiment on our own citizens without consent.
We run drugs.
The DOJ and FBI are actively and flagrantly obstructing justice.
Putin easily kills people outside Russia.
We conspire and use academics for sheepskin washing our dirty work.
U.S. newspapers actively avoid reporting stories about which the U.S. population is desperate for information. They also carry extremely non neutral biases.
We actively conspired to hide open and obvious presidential dementia. And by extension, there are massive conspiracies at every level below that one. At a mind boggling level.
There are Special Access programs that are about real and/or fake NHI/UFOs
Etc.
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The last thing we need is skeptics telling us the bar for such conspiracies and/or governmental accountability requires extraordinary evidence.
Somehow the skeptics have it totally wrong.
After Watergate, Iran-Contra, COVID, Church/Pike committees, etc. these are no longer extraordinary claims to raise. They are ordinary claims.
I have no idea whether Lindsay Graham died of natural causes. But I can tell you the difference between a skeptic and a scientist looking at the claim.
A skeptic’s first move is to lurch for the budding conspiracy and try to pull the idea of foul play off the table first and then to require a mountain of evidence to consider such a thing.
A scientist firmly grabs the skeptic’s hand and forces him to put the hypothesis back on the table and says “Uh, you’re not in charge here. There’s a history…and I’m going to need to see something other than reference to null hypotheses, William of Occam and Carl Sagan…because that’s not how science and investigation works.”
Time for extra scientific skepticism to die I think. Covert operations and conspiracies are difficult enough to document as it is.
We don’t need skeptics as self appointed referees.
This is HUGE news.
PhD astronomer and former NASA engineer Ivo Busko has single-handedly driven a final nail into the coffin of the contamination-based hypotheses (e.g. plate defects and cosmic rays) proposed to explain the VASCO transients. He did so using one of the most creative approaches in astronomy I have ever seen: by analysing pre-Sputnik photographic plates from a German telescope known to suffer from severe optical distortions (aberrations), he demonstrated that the transients appear on these plates and exhibit the same optical distortions as the stars themselves. They are slightly narrower and sharper than the stars, consistent with brief flashes.
This is a crucial result. It shows that the transient light passed through the telescope optics, meaning the transients originate from real objects producing light, rather than from plate defects or cosmic-ray contamination that hit the plate. Dr Busko has also shown that the transients cluster spatially and are associated with periods close to nuclear tests. See the example of the triple transient with optical comas.
This is the greatest gift. Congratulations, Ivo.
I'm happy beyond belief.
Read Ivo Busko's paper: https://t.co/6CT58wnsKJ
@FluorescentGrey@thatuapgirl Not really. Pointing out already public documents while calling for more transparency actually seems pretty reasonable.
Gotta remember he's not a whistleblower. He's just saying what he's allowed.
Wonderful news. 🌟💫✨
Our two new VASCO papers are now peer-reviewed, accepted and published — and they reveal some extraordinary things:
- We find statistically significant correlations between short-lived transients on pre-Sputnik sky plates, UFO sightings, and above-ground nuclear tests.
- We show a 22σ deficit of transients inside Earth’s shadow — consistent with a fraction of these events originating from solar reflections from flat, highly reflective surfaces in orbit before the human Space Age began.
Together with our earlier MNRAS paper, these results form a triptych of new methods to investigate UAP using astronomical data. Three independent high-level journals — and three independent peer review processes.
These latest results raise a bold question.
And yes… you know which.
Press release (Stockholm University): https://t.co/zr2nvFUs8b
Scientific Reports: https://t.co/GE7TDo4HyN
PASP: https://t.co/6vnbOIJGqR
🚨Army Secretary Dan Driscoll tells Fox News an astronaut is currently on the moon.
“We talked to an astronaut yesterday who’s on the moon, who’s a soldier.”
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Here's how difficult it is to match the pryomania shockwave to the MH370 satellite video. Feel free to recreate it yourself in After Effects if you'd like.
I highly recommend reading this fantastic article by @azrael2393:
“The alien in these workings serves as a mirror of the Other in ourselves. By facing the utterly alien, the practitioner recognises the parts of their own psyche and the universe that are alienated from ordinary awareness…
In Lovecraft's fiction, encountering the alien often drove characters mad because they had no framework to integrate the experience. However, in Lovecraftian occult praxis, one builds a framework (through myth, ritual, and philosophy) to incorporate that encounter productively. The terror becomes the trigger for a leap of consciousness. It forces the practitioner to evolve or break. With proper preparation, one evolves: the mind finds a way to expand around the incomprehensible, and in doing so, one's old, small sense of self is transcended.”
@Peter_Levenda@jdhodgkins@jfrickingfaulk@EngagingThe
https://t.co/J9pFvHlifm