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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Ok, I’ve been following this back and forth and now I’m just even more confused. You said there were peer reviewed articles discussing the physical evidence, Fuzz said show me, and after avoiding it you dumped like 20 random articles you did not even look into to see if they answered his request and you’re calling it “the academic approach”?
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The dump was to satisfy the request that there were not peer reviewed academic articles pertaining to the matter. I did not do any filter because I did not want to be accused of cherry-picking data and hiding articles that would be detrimental to the subject. This was the result of the specific query. I could have cherry-picked them, but that would have been dishonest. Also, I was not going to go through 97 articles from one database to meet his request.
The problem with what Fuzz asked for is what his perception of evidence is. Mine is the body of work, much of it interdisciplinary. Fuzz wants this.
I can't provide that, because that type of evidence does not exist in academic papers I have access through my institution. What you have is focused research from schools of thought evaluating the claims and using theory to explore the evidence/events. For example, in a discussion on regressions, burn evidence is described, but no pictures are provided. Articles may be speaking to the topic of regression therapy, disclosing what would be evidence, but not delve deeper into it because of the focus of the article and journal - providing greater exposure to the positives or negatives of the topic. The type of physical evidence is mentioned, just lost in the larger discussion.
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If there are articles that actually satisfy Fuzz’s fairly specific request, like you said there were, why aren’t you just linking those ones?
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What Fuzz really wants is at the
Center for UFO Studies, which was a refereed journal. That is J. Allen Hynek's site - the guy behind Bluebook. Everything is now paywalled for the academic papers. Lots of free information on the site though. I was hesitant to link this as it is paywalled.
Here are the types of articles that probably is what Fuzz wants, from another academic database. It took some time to hunt down the right database and access. This is a start.
Plaza del Olmo, J. (2015). A Review on the Geographical Distribution of UFO Reports. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 29(3).
Hernandez, R., Davis, R., Scalpone, R., & Schild, R. (2018). A Study on Reported Contact with Non-Human Intelligence Associated with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 32(2).
Murphy, W. (2018). The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs by Mark O’Connell. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 32(2).
Donderi, D. C., Davis, T., & Hopkins, B. (2013). The UFO Abduction Syndrome. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 27(1).
Plaza del Olmo, J. (2015). Modeling the Law of Times. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 29(2).
Jacobs, D. M. (1). A Brief History of Abduction Research. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 23(1).
da Silva, L. A. (2014). Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: The VASP-169 Flight Brazilian Episode Revisited. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 27(4).
Hernandez, R., Davis, R., Scalpone, R., & Schild, R. (2018). A Study on Reported Contact with Non-Human Intelligence Associated with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 32(2).
Dagnall, N., Drinkwater, K. G., & Parker, A. (2011). Alien Visitation, Extra-Terrestrial Life, and Paranormal Beliefs. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25(4).
I doubt these will change any minds though.