Twilightprincess wrote:
Fnord wrote:
I feel we should have another "Critical Thinking" thread, and a requirement that members read it.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink...unfortunately.
Are you and Fnord the fun police?
Anyway don't take my word for it...
Professor Avi Loeb, Head of Astronomy, Harvard University
"In case of UFOs extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. But It would be arrogant of us to relax on the sofa at home and ask: ‘where is everybody?’ without looking through our windows for any neighbors,”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-s ... -to-earth/ Professor Edwin Turner - Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton
“In science, we’re taught to be conservative and skeptical in many ways. That’s crucial when you’re designing experiments and interpreting data. But that mind-set can hold scientists back when it makes them reject any new hypothesis that doesn’t seem consistent with everything we knew before. You want to be critical in your methodology but unfettered in your imagination.”
Sara Seager an MIT astrophysicist and MacArthur Fellow who innovated a groundbreaking method for studying the atmospheres of far-off planets. "When it comes to alien life most scientists are incredibly narrow,”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180978579/