#1 was enjoyable to see. Invoking Occam's Razor as a "Scientific Principle" has had a tendency to trigger me in the past. I prefer to frame it as a "Problem Solving Rule of Thumb" or even just a method for doing research in an economically efficient manner, given researchers have limited resources.
I find the Ufology field hard to follow because of the low signal to noise ratio. Lots of people who have stumbled across a legitimate conspiracy theory then go on to make the mistake of extrapolating too far. Suddenly they see everything as a conspiracy, they get very paranoid, and critical thinking evaporates if it were ever there to begin with.
So far, one of the better resources I've found was Richard Dolan at https://richarddolanmembers.com/. Do you have any recommended resources?
I ran into that same problem the moment when I begin to investigate and have since decided that while the truth may be out there, I'm not going to be able to sort it out until we have some unmistakable smoking gun, if that ever happens. It's blurry photos and wild theories all the way down. I do believe many crop circles are NOT made by "three guys with boards", but what that means I couldn't say.
If you like the Occam's razor analysis, you might like my Filter podcast on black box models, do a search for "cargo cults" at mattasher.com
#1 was enjoyable to see. Invoking Occam's Razor as a "Scientific Principle" has had a tendency to trigger me in the past. I prefer to frame it as a "Problem Solving Rule of Thumb" or even just a method for doing research in an economically efficient manner, given researchers have limited resources.
I find the Ufology field hard to follow because of the low signal to noise ratio. Lots of people who have stumbled across a legitimate conspiracy theory then go on to make the mistake of extrapolating too far. Suddenly they see everything as a conspiracy, they get very paranoid, and critical thinking evaporates if it were ever there to begin with.
So far, one of the better resources I've found was Richard Dolan at https://richarddolanmembers.com/. Do you have any recommended resources?
I ran into that same problem the moment when I begin to investigate and have since decided that while the truth may be out there, I'm not going to be able to sort it out until we have some unmistakable smoking gun, if that ever happens. It's blurry photos and wild theories all the way down. I do believe many crop circles are NOT made by "three guys with boards", but what that means I couldn't say.
If you like the Occam's razor analysis, you might like my Filter podcast on black box models, do a search for "cargo cults" at mattasher.com