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Michael BuschThis is a reminder that UFOs are a social phenomenon based on people misunderstanding things they see.
Nobody should pretend otherwise.
And it remains way past time for news media to stop giving a platform to Avi Loeb.
Marianne@michael_w_busch ah hello
Are you familiar with @TheSkeptic ?
Always looking for people to author pieces so if you have a pitch... Check out the UFO tag, there's been all sorts!
It's very much not my own skeptical area (I'm mostly about the AltMed/sCAM [so-called Complementary & Alternative Medicine] side of things) but Ufology is evergreen it seems :)
I would much prefer to be talking about what is actually happening in the sky.
@michael_w_busch @TheSkeptic indeed that's very welcome ;)
In case unclear, The Skeptic is about debunking misconceptions. Like people misidentifying 'UAP'. I was very much not implying you had to believe UFOs were an alien thing.
People have covered the drone scares in the US for example, explaining why things have been misinterpreted.
Examples: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/category/paranormal/ufos/
There's astronomy stuff too!
Juan Carlos Muñoz@michael_w_busch Do I dare ask what he's said now?
The Associated Press unaccountably decided to run a piece that tried to connect Integrity's flight to UFO conspiracists, featuring quotes from Avi Loeb.
(And also quotes from the SETI Institute management further down, but they may not have been told the context they were being interviewed for.)
@michael_w_busch *sigh* why can't we enjoy space for what it is...
AP could have interviewed people actually involved in the mission and skipped the UFO angle.
That would have been actual journalism.
Zuthal@michael_w_busch Something something "anything can be a UFO if you are bad enough at identifying flying objects"