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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

MicaelS

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5. Guess I jumped to a conclusion.

Reply to InsultComicDog (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 01:35 PM

Nov 2012

Thanks for enlightening me.

My argument is actually far more nuanced. UFOs are a modern myth but a myth is simply an explanatory system of belief to which people turn to explain phenomena they don’t understand. Journalists habitually equate myth with falsity, but that’s not the original meaning of the word.

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Interest in UFOs apparently declining [View all] InsultComicDog Nov 2012 OP

Meh... uriel1972 Nov 2012 #1

still plenty of crazy out there InsultComicDog Nov 2012 #2

"David Clark, UFO adviser to Britain’s National Archives" MicaelS Nov 2012 #3

yeah, he exists InsultComicDog Nov 2012 #4

Guess I jumped to a conclusion. MicaelS Nov 2012 #5

UFO invasions are long term periodic. The term of art is the "flap." dimbear Nov 2012 #6

UFOs are so 1990s. We're all into zombies now. Pterodactyl Nov 2012 #7

Back to the '50's!!!!! nt uriel1972 Nov 2012 #8

We’re in a post-flap era now, I guess. frogmarch Nov 2012 #9

About time staffjam Dec 2012 #10