7 Reasons For Not Believing In UFOs

Let me first say that it's ok to believe in UFOs as they are real. What?? Yes... objects in the sky that you can't identify are UFOs. However, that does not mean that they are space ships piloted by E.T.

Let me also say that I typed this post and all of the content below using swype on my droid x... Please forgive grammar and spelling errors.

I read this post over at Totally Off Beat news and thought I would take a stab at a point by point take down of their arguments to believe in (alien piloted) UFOs while I sit here at the Honda dealership waiting for my car to be serviced.

Here is the original article

Here is my sophomoric comment:

This post, though entertaining, is rife with logical fallacies... I'll try to expound on each 'reason' as a service to clear thought.

1. This is an argument from authority. If Chef Ramsey thought there was a gold butcher knife with a diamond encrusted handle orbiting Mars, that doesn't make it true.

2. Same as number 1, but worse; let's not forget the witch trials and exorcism, purgatory, etc... Magical thinkers saying it's ok to think magically isn't a convincing argument.

3. I like this reason (except for the magical thinkers endorsement). The math suggests that there is a pretty damn good chance that there is life on other planets (google Drake equation). However, this likelihood in no way supports that idea that aliens loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.

4. Another argument from authority. People in power are still just people who are likely to be wrong about things... or lying for the sake of being sensational - hell, he's a politician...that's his job!

5. Anecdotal observations without evidence. If I claim I saw bigfoot mowing my neighbors lawn, does that make it true? What if the whole block saw it? Does it mean that there is a tribe of prehistoric primates living in the woods of the local skate park or does my neighbor just like to wear a monkey suit when he does lawn work?

6. The Rockefeller Initiative was a flop basically because there really isn't anything to report; just because I demand the government hand over documents about purple dragons living under Mount Rushmore doesn't mean they exist (the documents, well, purple dragons too, actually). Clinton did disclose what he could on some more well known incidents, but we still have thing called National Security that we have to maintain. This is called 'moving the goal post'. Ask for A, receive it, then cry that B is being withheld, therefore conspiracy!

7. Holy tractor beams another argument from authority - this is easier than I thought it would be. I won't explain this one again, but I will say this: History Channel be damned! I mean come on already! Really? You can't come up with a show that covers something that deals with history?? You're the HISTORY CHANNEL! Tell those dweeb writers coming up with this crap to send their resumes to the Sci-Fy channel. Good grief.

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