This one is unremarkable but there's a reason I am posting it here.
ADP: Col. Kevin Randle (Ret), PhD: ADP: Dr. Michael Shermer - Nature of Evidence; Why Scientists Don’t Believe In UFOs a l’Apple Podcasts
I have enjoyed
MonsterTalk quite a bit over the years, although lately it's started to fade a bit. Don't know if it's me or them or both. Their follow on
In Research Of does not light my pants on fire. I've read through
Skeptic magazine and although I am admittedly quite skeptical about quite a bit they can be too dismissive for my taste.
So - Kevin Randle. Like the guy but he can be a bit intense. I listened to this episode to see what Dr. Shermer had to say. I'll save you the hour - it was essentially Grover Krantz saying "
show me the body" and I have to admit, the man has a point. Not the only way to look at it but hard to argue; you want to unequivocally put something to bed a corpse would definitely help. A live breathing blinking body would be even better, maybe along with some snazzy hardware.
Nothing new at all here except that here we have a show in which the subject of the interview comes across like some guy that sat down next to you at the deli. Doesn't believe anything and is patiently listening to what you have to say while glancing at his watch. In this case that's Shermer and we have Randle going AH-HAH!! and excitedly citing a detail from 1950-something to prove a point that's already been flogged like a rented mule. I don't doubt his research at all and am glad he's made his work available but I'm not sure the public desire to delve in that depth in iconic cases is all that great anymore. We're getting old and if what he's saying fails to resonate with me anymore imagine how it must sound to someone half my age. Not that they're even listening..... they're paying more attention to TTSA - the Ufology reboot for the next generation. That has cool videos not grainy photos. Nobody under the age of 30 can wrap their head around film and typewriters and paper files.
All fine and well but when you take a few steps back and listen to these two men it's really Ufology in a nutshell. "
I don't believe it, or much of anything. I am dry white toast" on one side and "
what about this really old detail here, see, see? that proves
it!! "
Gawd.