The problem for these self-proclaimed UFO “experts” is
that they just hate criticisms. They want to be left in peace, writing the
usual nonsense and selling it.
Caitlin Dewey
wrote in The Washington Post about The
fear that drives our alien belief.
The article
analyzes the meaning of the UFO-ET mythology, quoting several scientific
sources. The psychologist Stephen Diamond suggests that the
belief in Extraterrestrial visitors makes some people feel that we are “…
still capable of experiencing something that lifts us out of our everyday,
mundane, ordinary, banal, often seemingly purposeless lives, and [they also
remind us], if only momentarily, what it means to be fully, ecstatically alive
in a universe filled with beauty, mystery, terror, danger and wonder.”
The Washington Post article makes Richard Dolan mad. He loses
his nice guy image and writes: “This article is another shameful and absurd
attempt by the Washington Post to debunk something that the publication has
never, ever bothered to do the slightest bit of real investigation about.”
Of course, this is pure, unadulterated nonsense. Either
Dolan doesn’t read the commentary, or he is blinded by his resentment.
Richard Dolan feels that someone invaded “Dolanworld”. A well documented
journalist violated the sacred space where a professional mythologist rewrites
and sells the same old UFO inventions.
The Washington Post’s informs us that “Researchers
at the Universities of Westminster and Vienna have identified a proverbial host
of factors that appear to correlate to belief in UFOs: Gender, politics,
religiosity, intelligence, fantasy proneness—even certain psychological
disorders, like schizophrenia.”
For Richard Dolan, “the
Post wastes everyone’s time with infantile explanations, it destroys its
credibility among serious individuals who know better.”
Those who know better write this about Richard Dolan:
“Dolan is strictly a nuts & bolts guy
and does not consider alternative hypotheses in the field. Sociological and
psychological issues are beside the point to him.”
“The problem is that Dolan appears to take
all evidence at face value. He will quote Morris K. Jessup on an equal basis
with Jacques Vallee. He will talk of Gray Barker on the same level as J. Allen
Hynek. He puts Philip Corso at the same level as Jerome Clark. In other words,
he does not seem to discriminate between sources. He considers them all valid.
Rather than sifting through vast amounts of disinformation for the Truth, it’s
more like he’s amassing a mound of evidence without regard to its veracity or
corroboration. He doesn’t even allude to the possibility that there might be
some problems with some of this evidence. The clowns are thrown in with the
professors.”
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