Richard Dolan’s
UFO-ET mythology was spoiled by an article published last year by the
Washington Post about Ufology.
My comments in bold and italic.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/05/14/the-fear-that-drives-our-alien-belief/
R.Dolan:
Earlier, I spoke about
the appearance of unknown and extraordinary objects engaging in what appeared
to be some sort of monitoring or observation of key American nuclear facilities
during the very early Cold War. I need not point out that this is a serious
development, and one would think that academic historians would find this to be
something noteworthy of study. And yet, to this day, there is not one single
academic monograph or book length study on any of this. There are a few serious
works on the matter, including my own, but none that come from a university
setting.
After serious and professional research by private and public national
and international institutions, the
statistics show that 90 to 95% of the UFO are identified as natural phenomena
or man made artifacts. The 5 to 10 %, remains unidentified by lack of enough
research. This is not evidence, and Richard Dolan prudently tells us that these
objects “appeared to be some sort
of monitoring key nuclear facilities”
This means nothing. As usual no evidences are presented.
It’s also untrue that “…to
this day, there is not one single academic monograph or book length study on
any of this. There are a few serious works on the matter, including my own, but
none that come from a university setting.” In
fact there are many serious books written by scientists that debunk this
unbelievable statement. The reader should do some Google research
find 554,000 links under key.
Tray and let me know who is right and who is wrong. By the way, the
inclusion of R.Dolan’own books as serious works is a pearl..!
Someone defined our self
proclaimed UFO “expert” as a:
“Smart guy who
believes stupid things without evidence.
Does the same mental
and cognitive gymnastics other believers do.
Has some notoriety now
thanks to a few books, TV appearances on SciFi Channel, and now his own radio
program.
So now that he's
economically invested in the nonsense he will defend his cash cow and discount
any disconfirming evidence as part of a conspiracy.”
However this statement is contradictory, because if Richard sells his
books and his image well, then he doesn’t needs to believe in stupid things.
Let me tell you this: NOBODY who makes a living inside the UFO-ET industry remains
a believer. (See my works about cognitive dissonance in this blog, please.)
I quoted Richard Dolan before, denying the existence of serious
academic investigations, but again he is wrong.
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.”
Where are those “serious
individuals who know better” Richard?
Why they are not telling what they know to the world-and making lots of money?
UFO watchdog, which is not a debunkers site, gives us the key of
Richard Dolan UFO “expertise”
“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.”
