The problem with the UFO phenomenon is "ufology" - the pseudo-science that the great unwashed, the rabble, has adopted as their sobriquet.One constantly reads (or hears) that UFO conjecture, or hypotheses, need "peer review," a phrase taken from academia or science but never accepted as a practice by UFO mavens or researchers.After all, who in "ufology" is qualified to pass judgment on the poncifs of their fellow ultrafidians? [Explanation: who in the UFO world is qualified to determine if ufological nonsense has validity or not?]Take the re-constituted Roswell Dream Team for instance. Does the one lone objective partner - Chris Rutkowski - have enough clout - mental and otherwise - to thwart the faith-obsessed mind-sets of his team colleagues; that is, can Mr. Rutkowski stem the belief fervor of Dream Team members when their faith in the ET hypothesis takes hold based upon very circumscribed evidence?And then we have the UFO skeptics, who bring to the UFO table all kinds of ruminations that have the gloss of serious scrutiny but, when examined carefully, only has the patina of objectivity and academic acumen.(The evidence for cavalier skepticism is made manifest by the lack of academic or scientific credentials by those claiming to be skeptics: they are self-anointed.)But the essential problem is not the Dream Team or skeptical cliques. It's the sycophancy of the rabble. That UFO throng weighs in with predilections based upon facile psychological or sociological elements that border upon insanities of various kinds.Take a look at the comments that abound at various UFO venues: UFO UpDates, Rense, Above Top Secret, and even here, among many others.The ruminations are patently aberrant.This has been the case with UFOs since 1947, when the phenomenon reared its head and became a fringe fascination for people themselves on the fringe (of society) or mental competency.UFOs should have been studied, as Jacques Vallee suggested and tepidly acted upon with his "Invisible College" idea, taken from the Rosicrucians or Robert Boyle's Royal Society of London clique.A small, qualified group of credentialed persons, from various academic disciplines should have banded together to study UFOs from the outset.This didn't happen at the overt level, and that explains the ongoing belief that MJ-12 may have legitimately existed or still exists: MJ-12 fits with the sensible idea of an Invisible College.But any idea of a qualified band of UFO devotees getting together now is muffled by the onslaught of the rabble and the rabble's use of the internet to intercede with ignorance in the matter of the phenomenon.The vociferous clamor of the UFO underbelly drowns out or dissipates rational discourse.We even experience that here, although we strive mightily to curb the waywardness of illogic and utter banality of thought that comes our way as comments on our topics.UFOs, as a phenomenon, has been lost by the gargantuan storm of idiocies that have inundated the subject and continue apace now that the internet has opened the door to every asinine quidnunc who thinks what they have to offer is gold of the gods.Can we, and a few other UFO bailiwicks, continue to ruminate within this maelstrom or cacophony of nonsense? Should we?Paul Kimball and other sensate individuals have chosen not to. We like their withdrawal from the blatant UFO scene. And see it as a way out of the madhouse.RR
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