I grew up believing in UFOs.
I watched every TV show about aliens, spaceships and aliens in spaceships. I voraciously read magazines and books on the topic, credulously soaking up everything I saw and believing it wholeheartedly because, after all, if someone published a book saying these things are real, they must be real, right?
Right?
Over the years, though, I took up science as a career and critical thinking as a passion. It didn’t happen suddenly, but gradually, over time, I looked back at all the information I had taken in as a kid and realized it was overwhelmingly baloney. It was just scads and scads of nonsense: bad photography, sketchy witnesses, wild speculation and evidence-free claims.
That was more than 30 years ago. Sadly, nothing’s changed.
Scientific unAmerican has become pathetic. But we already knew that. I wonder how much the hack that wrote this stupid piece got.
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