Scientific Ufology [antikvár]

Science and the UFOThere is a problem with the so-called science of UFOlogy: Those practicing it are anything but scientific in their approach to it. All too often we in the UFO community talk about applying the rigors of scientific methodology to our study, and then we fail to do so. For the most part, we believe in science but all too often reject it when it does not conform to our beliefs about UFOs.Scientists, on the other hand, reject UFOlogy because of our lack of scientific standards. To the scientific community, we fail to make our case within a proper scientific framework. Our information, according to them, is anecdotal, poorly documented, and without foundation. They claim we have presented no physical evidence for our beliefs in UFOs; in fact, according to scientists, we have no physical evidence with which to make our case.It seems that wethe UFO community and the scientific communityare at opposite ends of a long spectrum, never to meet. Until or unless something spectacular happens, that is the way the situation will remainneither side conceding a point to the other.Of course, this is often the situation in which science and the general public finds itself Science will make a pronouncement and not be believed simply because it is inconvenient for the public to do so, the pronouncement violates a long-held belief.