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I think his point was that he's not personally cut out for it, I didn't sense any condescension towards people who do work in offices... He also was a bit condescending about working to be a UFO researcher or having to work in an office environment. I think Dolan might be shocked that a good majority of humans do have to work in an office to bring home the bacon.
I'm not sure things are this simple. If you have solid evidence, things change. If you present rumor and infer various things, slowly but surely the idea will spread among academics that dealing with UFO-people is toxic, because UFO-people can't be trusted to make levelheaded conclusions, and so your own work becomes jeopardized. I think it is not only a bad thing... In today's version is to ridiculed and isolate the investigators and their families from basically not following main stream society thoughts when it comes to studying this field of paranormal subject.
I disagreeI think his point was that he's not personally cut out for it, I didn't sense any condescension towards people who do work in offices.
Ok, but there's really no reason to take something like that so hard or personal.I disagree
What you failed to bring up is that most scientific research is funded by the military/government. Scientists might be curious but they aren't fools. Bring up the UFO topic and watch all that grant money dry up.Whenever I hear Dolan speak, he overall sounds very intelligent, but there are always these little traces I pick up on that make me very skeptical. In this episode it started out with the crop circle stuff, and shame on Chris and Gene for not rebutting him with some of the points that we heard just last week.
As far as the Aztec stuff, I wish he could have gone a little deeper on that since the specific points he brought up were not things that were really discussed on the show in the past.
The final thing that I wanted more details on was towards the end of the show when he spoke about academics being afraid to take on the UFO subject and James McDonald's life being "ruined" by doing so. Every time I hear someone say things along those lines, I can't help but think it is utter nonsense. Scientists become scientists because they are curious people and want to discover new things. The reason there are few or no scientists studying UFOs is not because they think it will hurt their reputation, it's because there is nothing to study. I do not mean by this that UFOs are not real, but they are not measurable. There is no experiment to design and no data to look at to try and verify a model.