BBC NEWS - 'Pilot fatigue' caused Air Canada jet dive

This link: BBC NEWS - 'Pilot fatigue' caused Air Canada jet dive was posted on the JREF under the heading "There's a lesson for you UFOlogists here..." No, there isn't. There's a lesson for the corporate and bureaucratic greed that demands pilots -- who are astoundingly underpaid for the work they do -- fly when exhausted. Ah, but the OP uses this story to marginalize the idea that pilots are trained observers.

Michael Prescott's Blog: Pep talk

Michael Prescott suggests that the pathological "skepticism" of debunkers/skeptoids is magical thinking. You know I love this article!Michael Prescott's Blog: Pep talk The comments that follow are interesting to read, including one where the poster "maintains" and "affirms" and "believes" a long list of -isms that are not religious, but anti-religious/spiritual/metaphysical. There is a place where the lines do blur. . .

Quiz Results: How Much do you know about Skepticism?

Perfect score for me! Although, very easy and only 10 questions. Quiz Results

Bigfoot Lunch Club: ISU Professors Argue About Sasquatch Funding, Critical Professor Invokes the "Easter Bunny Argument"

As blogger Guy Edwards notes, it is very odd Dr. Jeff Meldrum is not mentioned in this academic squabble:Bigfoot Lunch Club: ISU Professors Argue About Sasquatch Funding, Critical Professor Invokes the "Easter Bunny Argument" by Martin Hackworth. (Note Forteam name-game language of last name.)It is truly amazing how the majority of the scientific culture continues to frame Bigfoot as, well, in Hackworth's own words, "silly."

In a truly astounding loop of "logic" Hackworth explains why researching Bigfoot is silly and unscientific:

I also stated (no insinuation) rather plainly that the scientific pursuit of Bigfoot, sans any compelling evidence, is foolish. Perhaps the insulation, to which he refers, rests in the notion that if I think that the scientific aspirations of Bigfoot, et. al., are scientifically dubious, I also think that those who hold these notions, by extension, could be dubious as scientists.

Russell Targ on Coast to Coast AM

Physicist Russell Targ is the guest tonight on:Home - Coast to Coast AM