I already spent too much of my time reading about Skinwalker Ranch and Robert Munroe. The onus is on you to provide a link to a reliable source, rather than on me to spend my entire weekend digging for something that I have every reason to doubt exists.
You definitely did not read about pseudoscience.
“Pseudoscience is a term used to describe a set of beliefs, practices, or statements that claim to be scientific but are not in line with the scientific method”
So it’s doing things like creating documentaries, setting up organizations that sound like “the foundation for the discovery of knowledge”, and then “collecting evidence” while never thinking critically of it, and then stating that there is overwhelming evidence for X. Real science, to discover real things about reality involves testing, doubt, peer review, and a description of events based on already foundational knowledge.
There is no evidence for paranormal or supernatural activity that both conclusively demonstrates that certain events are only supernatural/paranormal, and stands up to criticism and review. Full stop. Until such time it can be proven to exist, it can be dismissed as vacuous bullshit at best, and at worst a shameless grift.
No, it looks like there is nothing to the story, other than a few local legends and gullible rube with a lot of money.
Can you link to raw video or photos of paranormal events there?.. Because all I see when I look around is dopey conspiracy theorists fucking around in the scrub
You should definitely read the “criticisms” page on the Skinwalker Ranch wikipedia. Then you might know who James Randi was. Dude was a famous magician, and had multiple TV shows. I’d say for sure he’s more famous than Robert Munroe or the Skinwalker Ranch.
You didn’t look up pseudoscience, did you?
…there is also no official evidence whatsoever that proves that such things do not exist
That statement right there sums up the problem.
No, you cannot prove that the supernatural does not exist. The same way you cannot prove that god doesn’t exist, or that there isn’t a teakettle in orbit around the sun between Venus and Mercury. The lack of evidence against their existence is not evidence for it. However, since there have been so many claims of supernatural phenomena, gods and near-sun teakettles, and none of them have been shown to be true, I feel confident in saying that they don’t exist.
Here are some interesting counterpoints though…
The James Randi prize has never been claimed. No person has been able to demonstrate the existence of supernatural phenomena in order to claim an easy 1 million dollars.
Everything that has ever been discovered has turned out to be not magic.
Neat I guess. Still not a real thing.
I see altered states of consciousness mentioned a lot. Basically means your brain isn’t functioning like normal. It does not mean that you’re able to move your consciousness outside of your body.
Go ahead and look up pseudoscience.
Fake bullshit.
My thoughts on supernatural phenomena?
Name one.
Not with that attitude.
Agreed, but a country half populated by idiot conspiracy nuts and neonazis with disporpotionately large representation is shaping up to be a bad idea.
I know it has an potential to cause great harm, but maybe we should get back to intelligence (or even basic reality) tests, and then weight votes proportional to the score.
Just some agree/disagree statements…
The earth is shaped more like a sphere than a disc.
The human beings have never landed on the moon.
The 2020 general election was fair, and without meaningful fraud.
The efficacy of vaccines are well documented, going back over 100 years.
I’m sure we can come up with a lot.
We literally have Hummers as street legal vehicles…
Sometimes you have to open the gun range you wish to see in your neighborhood.
Or something like that. I think Gandhi said it.
All your fingers, or just one?
Yeah, our response to the Equifax breach was the end of data privacy. Oh, you lost literally all of the data for all of the adults in the US that you have been tracking without consent? All good, don’t worry.
Really, the response should have been the FBI taking all of their equipment, figuring out exactly what was stolen, notifying all the victims, then formatting and shredding all the equipment and sending Equifax a bill, on top of a huge fine.
Nope I’m not.
And the Americans are still here because he ran a clown show last time too. Palestine might not make it through the next 4 years though, but that’s what the abstainers and 3rd party voters were pushing for.
No. There were two ways the trump admin was going to go. He was either going to run an effective fascist regime, or become the ringmaster of the largest dipshit fucknugget circus. Seeing how things are going so far (and he isn’t even the president yet) it’s going to be the latter.
Sure, there will be long term damage that is going to take years, if not lifetimes of hard work and good policy to undo, but it can be undone. Assuming 2024 was a wake up call and people vote more effectively instead of throwing their voice away at propped up Russian disinfo candidates.
Less than 0.3% of the US population.
It’s not very much.