RE: Debunking UFOs: Incident in Montello
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I'm surprised to see a hiver who actually doesn't buy into this alien-UFO plot. People love to write and read about scifi and fringe content here, hehe. But that goes beyond Hive. Mick West is far less popular than the charlatans on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens for example.
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I write SF, plot can be tricky and I also studied ancient history and astronomy from when I was like 9.
I am interested in ALL conspiracy theories and fringe because people essentially extracted all of today's science and technology from magic, imagination, and even art and bullshit in general. Today we have movies and cgi.
Ancient Aliens are good series as it brings a lot of information and all of that we can put to question.
As from the speculative theories - aliens, flat earth, pyramids, and cryptids are my favorite.
I described the flat earth conspiracy years ago in two blog posts, some people on Hive thought I was for real lol, and an actual tech folk asked me to describe better silicon trees because an idea of those artificial trees sounds extremely intriguing.
YouTube is by the way the worst. They have deep fakes that are believable to that level that people just can't see the difference between an actual person to an animation.
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The problem of paying attention to conspiracy theories, even if we personally recognize that they are not true and we find them entertaining, is that by doing so, pseudoscientific things are echoed, often for the sake of sensationalism and to sell, and unfortunately many people, whether gullible or victims of bad education, believe them. Spreading pseudoscience does not help humanity, but rather harms it, it is disinformation, it is an attempt against education. Real science and real nature are infinitely more intriguing, more interesting and richer than the plots of pseudoscience, and yet many people love to hear about the latter instead. Try reading the first chapter of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World and you will understand my point better.
Oh boy, no. Quite the opposite. They are spreading misinformation everywhere. Most of them are just writers, not real scientists. They are exploiting the power of sensationalism as is the History Channel. It is not at all committed to science popularization, it wants to sell. Ancient Aliens have long been exposed and debunked by real scientists. Watch this excellent documentary, for example:
Too much of Independence day. 🤣