Park on UFOs
On 1 February 2008, Robert Park (in his What's New) reported this incident:
OTHER DIMENSIONS: THE GOVERNMENT’S UFO COVERUP.
I was invited this week to join a panel of "experts" on "It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle," an Emmy Award-winning, viewer-interactive news talk show on the Comcast Cable Television Network. The subject was "Are we alone?" The object was to increase advertising revenue by pandering to a public that lives in a mythical world.I was the token scientist; Ted Schick, a philosophy professor from Muhlenberg, was the other rationalist. Then there was a delusional M.D. who saw lights she couldn’t explain over Phoenix, and the delusional head of the Paradigm Research Group, devoted to exposing the imaginary UFO cover-up.
But the "experts" hardly mattered; the stars were the callers, with tales of strange lights and space aliens who can walk through walls. Is that really possible? "Of course it is," a caller explained, "quantum physics has proven it." The aliens, another cautioned, may be in another dimension – "there are eleven you know." What have we done?
As we know, the lack of evidence just proves there's a conspiracy. I do wish someone would explain to me how the existence of aliens is proved by quantum physics, but I'm afraid I probably wouldn't understand.
In: All, Curious Stuff, It's Only Rocket Science