Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

however many from trained scientists.

I don't know what TV show you watched, I haven't watched TV for years now.
Most television is junk, I didn't even like half of what I would see on even the Science Channel,
the History Channel is great if you don't care about actual history but right-wing KKKristianity
--and if you were unlucky enough to watch the Sci-Fi (or whatever it's called now)

:::::shudder:::::

All the so-called programming is for the purpose of hype and BS, AFAIC.

Even the Skinwalker Ranch website's database of photographs
http://www.skinwalkerranch.org/media/index.php?cat=2
are precious poor quality; still, better than nada.
I do wish they've tried to put these 'anomalies' (giant wolves who don't appear to take damage even when shot, "orbs" {gah I hate that term!} "portals" {ditto!}, UFO's, bizarre tracks/footprints, etc.) they've caught on film to some, even rough, kind of scale.


However, I find the amount of similar/almost identical eyewitness accounts
--not only through different owners, neighbors, aboriginal peoples, scientists, etc. but also through time
very compelling and worthy of more & better research.

We are but babies in any kind of understanding of quantum physics, alternate universes, quantum entanglement, dark matter (to name but a few fields of study); yet it seems to me that if even a fraction of these Skinwalker 'stories' turn out to be fact (and I tend to hold run-of-the-mill 'stories' vs. stories from trained scientists as different as a regular old layperson's imaginative 'theory' vs. Scientific Theory) it's just possible our body of knowledge could be approaching a sort of explosion.
I can't help thinking about the difference between the pre-B. Franklin era of our 'understanding' of electricity and our current knowledge of it.

After all, there will always be many more things than dreamed of in our philosophy...


But then, too; this could just all be a huge load of hooey
However, if they're at least attempting to use the scientific method regarding these anomalies, I'm at least going to try to pay attention...


Edit: oh yea, skip the 'Hollywood' movie about Skinwalkers that came out a couple years ago, too.
Junk. Pure & unadulterated.