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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
I just read 5 pages of the American politics thread and 5 pages of this one. Interesting similarities.
There is a group of people wishing to believe things with no evidence, and another who are evidence-focused. I wonder what the overlap is between people who believe in the GOP and people who believe in aliens? They sound the same to me....... crazy rejecters of the scientific method.
I ran into an issue when doing powerline consultation and EMF concerns - you can't prove the absence of something, its incredibly difficult to do that. Proving the presence of something is easier, but absence? Hard. 'Prove to me aliens haven't visited earth' - impossible, you can't prove the absence of something like that.
If no one can 'prove they have visited earth', then they haven't. Proving and the scientific method is straight forward, all the explanations as to why it can't apply here are noise/nonsense.
This would all be a lot of fun if it weren't for the similarities between alien-belief irrationality and GOP-belief irrationality, QAnon, etc. Its all in the same boat of strangeness.
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It’s disappointing to hear you say that last part. I mean sure, that happens…you get some crossover, definitely.
But it feels like this is a very bipartisan issue with some very astute minds on both sides of the equation. I wouldn’t draw those same parallels and I’ve been heavily researching this since 2017.
It’s a deep mystery that involves so many layers. It’s not just about “UFO’s are aliens!” There is just so much more to this.