Stephen Bassett: No proof is necessary.

The comments on Stephen Bassett in the Hall of Shame of UFO watchdog are a MUST
read for brain-users.
This is so, because the rhetoric of the disclosure, which I think is a basic strategy of  the UFO-Conspiracy profiteers, is clearly demonstrated here: Good reading.




http://www.ufowatchdog.com/stephen_bassett.htm

Critical Thinking in support of the UFO Psycho-social Hypothesis.

"Go back to the beginning, to the Kenneth Arnold sighting. The phenomenon described by Arnold was a group of boomerang-shaped objects that moved

like saucers skimming across a water surface. But the report was garbled in initial press reports, leading readers to believe that the alleged objects were saucer-shaped. Subsequent reports, amplified by cinema and television, spread the "saucer" or "disc" image of UFOs to people all over the world. And while many different shapes have been reported for UFOs over the years, the majority of reports have been of saucers or discs, a clear indication that witnesses are seeing what they expect to see, and reporting what others accept as the norm."

"There is also compelling evidence that the appearance of UFO occupants, as widely accepted among "contact" adherents, arose out of a particular episode of a television series. Barney Hill, who was allegedly abducted by beings from a UFO in the early 1960s (the initial case of this type), went into therapy and was hypnotized in the course of his treatment. Under hypnosis, Hill described the eyes of his abductors as "speaking." This peculiar phrase had been used by an extraterrestrial character in an episode of the ABC-TV series "The Outer Limits," which had aired only days before Hill's hypnosis session. The episode was "The Bellero Shield;" the alien portrayed was bald, essentially featureless in face and body, and had swept-back eyes, just as Hill sketched under hypnosis. Although other early reports of UFO occupants varied significantly from Hill's (probably inspired by other stereotypical alien images), his description is the one that has saturated popular culture via the media."

"In 1975, NBC-TV broadcast a dramatization of Hill's experience in a made- for-TV film called "The UFO Incident." Many millions of people watched this allegedly true story and learned what aliens are supposed to look like. A couple of years later, Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" became one of the most popular motion pictures ever made, depicting beings similar to those in Hill's description. Public perception of the "standard model" alien was further influenced by the cover of the 1987 best- selling book "Communion," an allegedly true account of alien contact, which sported the expected image. Had Barney Hill's hypnosis session taken place earlier, or had the ABC network scheduled the "Bellero Shield" later, we would in all likelihood have a different "standard model" alien." READ MORE.

Richard Dolan and Pseudo-science.

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Sci Fi Investigates, Finds Only Pseudoscience - CSI

				Sci Fi Investigates, Finds Only Pseudoscience - CSI Despite its breathless claims, the series provides little science and few answers but a lot of unintended skeptical laughs.
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BALONEY DETECTION KIT...DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT..!

BALONEY DETECTION KIT

Based on the book THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD by Carl Sagan

The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments:

• Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts
• Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
• Arguments from authority carry little weight (in science there are no "authorities").
• Spin more than one hypothesis - don't simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
• Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours.
• Quantify, wherever possible.
• If there is a chain of argument every link in the chain must work.
• "Occam's razor" - if there are two hypothesis that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.
• Ask whether the hypothesis can, at least in principle, be falsified (shown to be false by some unambiguous test). In other words, it is testable? Can others duplicate the experiment and get the same result?

Additional issues are

• Conduct control experiments - especially "double blind" experiments where the person taking measurements is not aware of the test and control subjects.
• Check for confounding factors - separate the variables.

Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric

• Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument.
• Argument from "authority".
• Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an "unfavourable" decision).
• Appeal to ignorance (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).
• Special pleading (typically referring to god's will).
• Begging the question (assuming an answer in the way the question is phrased).
• Observational selection (counting the hits and forgetting the misses).
• Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample sizes).
• Misunderstanding the nature of statistics (President Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence!)
• Inconsistency (e.g. military expenditures based on worst case scenarios but scientific projections on environmental dangers thriftily ignored because they are not "proved").
• Non sequitur - "it does not follow" - the logic falls down.
• Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - "it happened after so it was caused by" - confusion of cause and effect.
• Meaningless question ("what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?).
• Excluded middle - considering only the two extremes in a range of possibilities (making the "other side" look worse than it really is).
• Short-term v. long-term - a subset of excluded middle ("why pursue fundamental science when we have so huge a budget deficit?").
• Slippery slope - a subset of excluded middle - unwarranted extrapolation of the effects (give an inch and they will take a mile).
• Confusion of correlation and causation.
• Straw man - caricaturing (or stereotyping) a position to make it easier to attack..
• Suppressed evidence or half-truths.
• Weasel words - for example, use of euphemisms for war such as "police action" to get around limitations on Presidential powers. "An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old 

"Contact in the Desert"...with whom???

Those who try to make a living selling UFO-CONSPIRACY mythology,  must do
miracles to keep the UFO ET Hypothesis alive.
Please consider the unfortunate shows like the (no) Roswell Slides Hoax and after that the "Contact in the Desert"...my question is this: CONTACT WITH WHOM?

Listen to this..."2015 conscious creation productions, inc presents contact in the desert..." 

the big show..."productions INC. Well well well...these "contacts" never work...there is only contact between the "believers" and the "experts" who want money from the "true believers".
See the "big" names here
Between you and me, too much people sharing the money of the tickets, and the "memorabilia". We should ask 2015 Conscious Creations Productions, INC. about the show and the money.
Honestly, I hope that the believers enjoyed the extravaganza.
If they payed for information, they get none. Just the usual dose of nonsense, lies, fictions, and fallacies.

"While there were several vendors at the Conference, most of them were selling crystals,  Bohemian style (aka Hippie) clothing, juice and natural cures. There was a great deal of jewelry, Alien fan art and symbolic items as well. This area was separate from another area near the retreat’s sanctuary which featured signing station for the panelists as well as their books for sale. "
http://www.fangirlnation.com/2015/05/31/contact-in-the-desert-i-want-to-believe/

The Risks of UFO Mythology.

As you know, those who sell the UFO-ET-Cover-Up mythology, do NOT want informed
followers. They want believers, because believers are money. "Faith" sells.

That is why the self proclaimed "UFO experts" never will tell you the truth. Either you are a believer OR you are a malefic debunker. There are no options. Faith OR condemnation.

That is why the following documents published  by David Clarke, the British author of  "How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth", are a MUST READ, for those who want information, not dogma.
http://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2015/06/20/apocalype-then-the-mets-x-files/

Lessons from the SLIDEGATE scandal.

http://www.roswellslides.com/the-roswell-slides/

"The “Roswell Slides” are images that a group of UFO promoters – including Anthony Bragalia, Jaime Maussan, Adam Dew, Donald Schmitt, Tom Carey, and Richard Dolan – put forward at an event held on May 5, 2015, in Mexico City, as proof positive of an extraterrestrial crash at Roswell in 1947 and the recovery and cover-up by the US government of alien bodies. These are claims that most of the aforementioned group have been making for over two years now. They have repeatedly said that the best experts they could find were examining the slides, and that they had determined the slides showed a creature that was of unearthly origin." THIS WAS NOT TRUE.

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MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD BOY

At the time of burial the body was clothed in a xxx-xxx cotton
shirt. Burial wrappings consisted of three small cotton blankets.
Loaned by the MR. Xxxxxx, San Francisco, California

What remains after this scandal? The most valuable knowledge about what we call the UFO Industry. There are self-proclaimed UFO experts that do not care about TRUTH , but about people's money. 

But the most important lesson is this one: If you want to know more about UFOs, Google is FREE. Do not waste your time and money buying the books of these ""experts". Do not waste your time and money going to conferences and " UFO congresses" Everything you want to know is in the Internet. Believers and Skeptics. Those who sell the Myth of the extraterrestrial presence, and also those who analyze the alternative option: The Psychosocial Hypothesis. You don't need professional charlatans. USE the WEB.

Karyn Dolan and husband Richard in the Ufological Show.

First of all, let's say that Karyn Dolan speaks better than her husband  Richard. She is more coherent and has more control of her rhetorical resources. No massive funny" digressions, and less unnecessary autobiography. ( We hope that  she will not post hundreds of thousands of pictures of her face, following the practice of his narcissistic husband. 

However, since she is in the beginning of her "apostolate", Karyn goes into the ancient astronauts mythology and assure us that there is more than enough evidence about the ET activities in our planet.
In other words she, of course has nothing new to say about the UFO-ET mythology, but after all, there is nothing wrong with this, because you will not look for originality where there is never nothing new to say. 

Anyway Mrs. Karyn Dolan tries her hand with a some new meme about conditioning
kids concerning the presence of ETs  through cartoons, TV and movies. 

This is funny. Some reactions of listeners and video watchers is very negative: About this Video, a comment says:

"This is a good example of a wife trying to cash in and be part of her husbands hard work. This presentation is horrible and she is stretching it a little. Richard Dolan has worked very hard on his UFO research and has made many presentations that are quite good. His wife now obviously wants a piece of the action and she comes up with this crap. Please...leave the UFO stuff to Richard and get your own career. She reminds me of Hillary Clinton riding the coattails of Bill Clinton. Disgusting. ."

Another one: 

"Well,here we go....now Aliens are No GOOD! She for got Star Track ;0)

In Reality....if Light Walkers wanted too really Hurts us.....they would done it Already!!!

Who she working with the elite?????"

Of course we agree about the poor content of this repeated paranoid non-sense, and Richard Dolan, who now has enough experience about UFO-ET Mythology, should give his wife some advice. Truth is that Karyn would do best remaining out of the UFO-ET Circus. Out of the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxc7OYnLuSQ

UFO, Hyperreality and the Disclosure Myth

http://silverscreensaucers.blogspot.mx/2015/04/video-ufos-hyperreality-and-disclosure.html

https://youtu.be/8N-SImMAPLo

Leading Ufologist Nick Pope denies Conspiracy Theories.

"There’s no significant evidence of any conspiracy here. 9/11 was not an “inside job”, and neither was it “allowed to happen”, with the powers that be looking the other way."

"When I was a kid, I was taught that the trails I often saw behind aircraft were called contrails, or vapour trails. Now, some people call them chemtrails and think they’re part of a sinister New World Order plot to poison people. The theory is crazy. "



http://hushkit.net/2015/06/04/911-chemtrails-aurora-exploring-the-veracity-of-aeronautical-conspiracy-theories/

Some questions about the UFO Cover-Up and Disclosure

Let’s analyze briefly the polemic concerning the presumed UFO cover-up and the demand of disclosure.  If such a cover-up exists, it’s the greatest conspiracy of all human history. This is so, because the revelation of the presence and contact with some extraterrestrial

civilization(s) would shock the world as nothing did before.

Also, to keep this cover-up, the conspiracy should include several governments, the whole scientific establishment and the media.

Think, if you have enough imagination, in the colossal organization required to keep such cover-up.

Now, such organization should include some control of those who condemn the cover-up demanding a complete disclosure, am I right?  

Individuals talking and writing about such cover-up should be dangerous for the massive conspiracy, and plotters would use repression and even violence to shut up those voices demanding disclosure.

However, the keepers of the formidable UFO-ET secret do not care at all about all those challenging the monstrous conspiracy of Silence.

Ufologists talk, write, organize big shows, UFO congresses, “contacts in the desert” and use the media and the Web to denounce the cover-up.

The government however shows total indifference and perhaps watches the UFO-Conspiracy-disclosure show with sympathy.

Looks like the UFO Industry doesn’t threat  the mythological cover-up and, on the contrary, the authorities just love to see people caring about nonexistent entities instead of confronting real problems such as the environment, hunger, war, inequality, corruption and insatiable greed.

Contact in the Desert: A new fiasco ...back to the 70's

Massive decadence is the rule in Ufology, and this was evident again in the so called Contact in the Desert. Pathetic and preposterous. 
Brilliantly defined by Jason Colavito in his blog:

Contact in the Desert 2015: Paranoia and Pyramidiocy 6/1/2015 14 Comments   The annual “Contact in the Desert” meeting of fringe history and UFO fans ended in Joshua Tree last night after three days of zany speeches about conspiracies and aliens. According to Victoria Irwin of Fangirl Nation, who attended the event, the most notable part of the conference was the fact that the vendors who hawked their wares to the mixture of more than 2,000 conspiracy theorists and neo-hippies in attendance were mostly selling New Age holistic healing paraphernalia such as crystals, hippie clothes, organic food, and “natural” cures, all set to the tune of 1970s pop music—probably a conscious nod to the average age and cultural affiliation of fringe believers. Guests could also partake of ’70s favorites like aura photography, and they could see Nick Redfern, dressed like the teenager he was in the 1970s in a black t-shirt and bandana, both emblazoned with skulls. There was, by all accounts, copious amounts of marijuana being smoked, and every observer noted that the vast majority of attendees, as USA Today put it, “were united by their skepticism of common science, doubt of by-the-book history and distrust of the U.S. government.” Just like in the 1970s!" Karl Marx said once that History repeats itself, the first time as Tragedy and the second time as Comedy.