On Saturday, 7 July 2018 19:28:54 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, July 6, 2018 at 4:58:31 AM UTC-6, Martin Brown wrote:

Kevin H. Knuth actually exists as a signal processing Bayesian statistician
at University of Albany (as the Metro article describes).

And, sadly, it is one Kevin H. Knuth that formerly worked for NASA, so this
isn't a case of, say, a Kevin R. Knuth who mught have been a custodian for them.
Whatever his qualifications, this sort of thing does mean that he has gone off
the rails.

It's sad when this happens, but advanced intellectual work imposes a mental
strain, and scientists are subject to the same emotional forces as other people.

John Savard

UFOism has become a fully fledged religion. With all the typical self-reinforcing mechanisms within the faith's followers. The demand for proof has fallen to lamentable levels. Allowing room for the lowest standard of writing, video and photography to stand as absolute proof of empty their claims.

The believer's desperate need for some superhero to end the world's endless corruption [or boredom] is all it requires for faith to take flight. Any Hitler, Putin, Trump, KKK, Pope, Kim, Ronaldo, street gang, Spacey, ISIS, little green man or Erdogan will do.

Provided the idiot believer can switch on their genetically hard-wired, belief system. That their hero-worship will lead to a better world. Anything is better than being a mere extra on the stage of life. Worship allows you to belong to something [or anything.] And to lash out blindly at any non-believers who might dare to undermine their fantastic castles in the air.