Scientists Decline to Defend Themselves

Scientists Decline to Defend Themselves, by Billy Cox. The Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science in Tallahassee, Florida, hosts a Roswell exhibit. Stanton Friedman spoke at the museum earlier this November, which, naturally,infuriated skeptoids everywhere. It sent Dr. Paul Cottle in Florida into paroxysms of frothing at the mouth fury. Equating UFO studies with astrology, palmistry and other so-called "pseudosciences" Cottle went berserk. Museum curator Chucha Barber commented that "getting people to think is what we're supposed to do."

For those skeptibunkies, debunkers, scofftoids and scientists who can't get their heads of the sand, Cox reminds them of Project Blue Book, where "roughly 20 percent of their UFO reports were legitimate unknowns by the mid-1950s." Or France's 1999 COMETA report, by scientists and a forward by the "former chair of the French National Center for Space Studies," or "The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence,” authored by a team of scientists assembled by Dr. Peter Sturrock, professor emeritus of applied physics at Stanford University." Or England's release of their MOD files on UFOs. Or Russia's. We could go on and on, for the data is there. All conclude one thing: something unknown and unexplainable is flying around up there.

The continued and by now, simply clown-like reactions of those who insist they're scientists -- be they amateur or professional -- who continue to ignore the facts and the data on UFOs has crossed the line from being frustrating to being ludicrous.