I don’t see rationality as being generally undermined by the UFO subject. My impression has always been that the most prominent figures in the dialog are skeptics. The subject ends up being a fun study of how ordinary people can be wrong and how authors sometimes lie. Among woo theories, I think it’s the one that is most compatible with science.
I don’t think a person can be a rationalist if they’ve never had an encounter with delusion and seen that it’s escapable. Until having that experience, it’s hard to really have faith in dialog or investigation.
I don’t see rationality as being generally undermined by the UFO subject. My impression has always been that the most prominent figures in the dialog are skeptics. The subject ends up being a fun study of how ordinary people can be wrong and how authors sometimes lie. Among woo theories, I think it’s the one that is most compatible with science.
I don’t think a person can be a rationalist if they’ve never had an encounter with delusion and seen that it’s escapable. Until having that experience, it’s hard to really have faith in dialog or investigation.