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Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers - science-in-society - 27 February 2009 - New Scientist Glad to see guys doing your bit to 'stimulate' the economy!

I better stop using the highlighter on it right now! Its still available from the UK Amazon for 20 pounds, though I'm not sure what the postage would set you back. : UFO Religions: Christopher Partridge: Amazon.co.uk: Books There are a number of other papers that could be useful to you...

Again I agree with you. But I think you are over generalizing 'scientists' as if they were a homogeneous group. Certainly sociology and psychology have produced research that does show that despite 'hard' sciences best attempts there is no such thing as being completely objective. In fact...

While I agree with your sentiment, I would disagree that a rationalist approach necessarily equates to the same as religious dogma. By definition a rationalist will change their position if there is sufficient 'hard' evidence, where as religion, though subject to social forces, does not change...

Could it possibly be a bird of some description blurred due to its speed?

It was interesting Mr Basset brought up other social movements as an example of why the government must disclose,i.e they reach a 'critical mass'. Would he apply the same criteria to theses movements? (e.g. the civil rights movement, feminism ,anti psychiatry etc) that the credibility of the...

Thanks AnnetteMarie, his works looks fascinating, I just ordered his biography of Brion Gysin.

One of UFOlogys greatest problems is there is no accepted legitimized body of knowledge precluding it from being an academic discipline (at least to a certain extent). What we are left with is eyewitness testimony, filtered through what ever medium they report the event, filtered through the...

We'll have to agree to disagree foundryman, on the chemist issue (and I certainly did not mean to shoot the messenger!). In my opinion not being able to get one other chemist to substantiate his claims seems 'odd' when potentially it would prove hard evidence for his thesis. Could he just not...

In my opinion stars rarely, if ever, show up on video recordings so I remain skeptical of this video. However, there are so many myths that are transmitted throughout the 'UFO community' it can be quite difficult to separate 'fact' from 'fiction', even more so with the passage of time. The...

Without trying to put a 'skeptic' spin on things, I'm not entirely convinced by his 'evidence'. There a number of problems not least with the main protagonist himself. The originator of the story W.C. Levengood may well be a doctor in biophysics, but he is also associated (I'm not use how much...

Almost impossible to tell due to the blurry/shaky nature of the video, but my first guess would be a balloon ( possibly bunch of balloons?) of some description.

AMAZINGLY despite the boring and REPETITIVE data collected within this field there is tantalizing data that suggest there is SOMETHING MORE. You may feel this is a subject not worthy of further investigation, others do and I feel always will do (and who knows what they may stumble upon)...

Is Nick Pope becoming the official spokesperson for the Sun? (He is even quoted as a 'space expert' for the mars/methane story) Why he would pander to this rubbish is beyond me. Unfourtanly this 'news' paper's tabloid style of non-journalism further pushes UFO study into the fringe and ensures...

Out of curiosity how do you calculate the odds of a 'detailed' face being artificial or random? I would have thought through the sheer amount of images, that there is no criteria (i.e size, angle, profile etc), and that our poor monkey brains suffer from pareidolia that the chances of there not...

If you watch YouTube - UFOs Over Earth Mass Sightings in Mexico MUFON video (if you can get hold of the whole program) , they released a bunch of balloons to test to see if a Arturo Robles, a 'skywatcher' with hundreds of video clips to his name, could distinguish them from a 'real' UFO, as you...

Please don't take this the wrong way cottonzway, but your arguments always come across as almost religious in their zeal. I'm sure your a well read and pleasant enough fellow, but I tend to not follow what you say because of the constant 'mindless sheep' you seem so intent on calling anyone...

You make a very salient point about the whole 'paranormal' field. There is a mass of data about the perceived event (including detail descriptions of 'craft' ,'aliens' , scientific analysis of traces, radar data etc etc) but we know little of the actual witness to the events. One attempt to...

Unfortunately I will not rise to the bait, I'm too old. However, I do not know you form 'Zandroid' so am unable to judge your intellect (or his). You may feel that insulting others and threatening third party's makes you above the 'norm' but frankly it does not impress me. I merely pointed out...

What insults? I understand your protected status here, but really...... Zandroid made a slight comment (with a slight humors slant about 'city' types' which was proceed with a 'smile', I assumed from his post he was being slightly facetious). Is your skin that thin?