This is obviously a hoax or some kind of avantgarde art project. Of course it´s not ancient aliens. Why? Because the "carvings" look exactly how ancient aliens are supposed to look like *according to the expectations of current (mostly American) pop culture*. What are the chances?
Even Dan Dedunking doesn´t seem to believe in these "artifacts". Yes, we´re talking about the guy who thinks Easter Island is Atlantis! I mean, dude.
Materialists are funny. So supposedly consciousness comes from some kind of quantum effects related to phosphorus molecules. Or something. Sabine isn´t buying it, but even if true, how does this disprove "God" or "the Divine"? So a certain kind of phosphorus can give rise to subjective lived experience, wow, sounds like the God molecule or something...
End it already, we need a new cosmology pronto! Yes, this makes science (or certain branches thereof) a laughing stock...
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So has science finally proved that the pineal gland is our third eye? Guess what the mystics, occultists and "enthusiasts" will do with *that* discovery? Muh-hah-hah-hah!
The paradigm shift is here, boyz & girlz.
Sabine is on the war path again. Note the portrait of Eric Weinstein in the background... :D
UAPs and transients are real. It´s peer reviewed at this point. Deal with it. And yes, scientists are afraid to speak out. Not because of MIBs or the CIA. The problem is ridicule from "the scientific community" (and the Skeptic movement). Boundary policing, as it were.
But don´t worry, Sabine has promised to keep us up-to-date on ongoing UAP research. Thanks for your attention to this matter.
This is *really* low IQ, or perhaps an early April Fool´s joke? Or is there a "Christian" version of Reddit?
Anyone who takes this seriously deserves a punch in the face. Modern cross-references doesn´t fucking prove that God wrote the Bible. Anymore than ditto footnotes or maps of Paul´s journeys. Note also that the Bible is said to have 66 books. Ahem, yeah, so about that...that´s the Protestant version of the canon, you morons, which isn´t even original.
So the "research" was simply to program a computer with all the standard (Protestant) Biblical cross-references? You know, the ones put there by a 21st century editor. "The Bible Code" wasn´t true either, but at least it wasn´t this lazy! The skeptics had to do *some* legwork on that one.
Somebody should be fired for this.
New Bible analysis uncovers thousands of clues suggesting scripture written by God
LOL. Nothing will come out of this, methinks, but I suppose it could be entertaining distraction if it ever will...
Two more skeptical essays on FC and its later incarnation RPM.
A (very interesting) critical review of a pro-FC book. Below are some excerpts (apparently, this version of FC is called S2C). Note that the extraordinary skills of the "type 3 autists" are patently absurd...unless we assume that the cause is supernatural/paranormal. Which may explain why some factions of the FC movement has morphed into an outright New Age cult!
>>>In addition, we’re supposed to accept the usual claims about sudden manifestations of literacy, of prior knowledge, and of prior academic skills. From the moment Jamison starts S2C, his spelling is perfect. He types out “popcorn”, “movies”, and “cracker jacks”—even though, “because of Jamie’s diet, the kid has never seen a box of Cracker Jacks in his life.” He already knows—because he types it out—that “herbivore” is the “opposite of carnivore”.
>>>And, though Handley tells us that Jamison has shown no prior signs of being able to do math, it turns out he already knows basic arithmetic so well that he is able to quickly progress through algebra to calculus. (His letterboard “helper” for calculus also happens to be his calculus tutor).
>>>Jamison also already knows Spanish. As Handley explains in an interview with “Dr. Jack” (the prominent anti-vaxxer James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, who has most recently spoken out against the Covid vaccine), “Jamie’s Spanish is very good because his brother and sister took it in school and they would drill in front of him.”
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>>>Occam’s Razor favors an alternative account. While experienced helpers are experienced at sending cues to spellers, novice parents take a while to get there. Novice spellers are less responsive even to the cues of experienced helpers; the three boards are at first a necessary supplement to those cues.
>>>Finally, what looks like sudden literacy, including the ability to spell words never seen before like “cracker jack,” unexpected stores of prior knowledge (herbivore), and arithmetic skills that were mastered without any active practice—all of which completely defies everything we know about how children learn things—all this output is actually authored (presumably subconsciously) by the helpers.
>>>Or, to summarize this alternative account in two words: “Clever Hans.”
Review of J B Handley´s Underestimated
Take a Boltzmann brain and combine it with a form of Last Thursdayism and voilà, you get some crazy shit about the laws of thermodynamics being wrong. OK, I also want them to be wrong, but not if the price to pay is some even more insane stuff á la Herr Boltzmann.
Modern science at its worst? Bring back the luminiferous aether, I say!
Another criticism of Facilitated Communication (FC). See also previous blog post. One thing that struck me when reflecting on this problematique is that FC´s transition into the paranormal ("The Telepathy Tapes") is perfectly logical.
FC makes sense only if you postulate that autistic people have highly evolved souls trapped in the wrong body. How else would severly autistic pre-schoolers or ditto elementary school kids suddenly be able to communicate in grammatically correct English or solve mathematical problems far above the grade-levels of their neurotypical peers? A true believer could further argue that the autistic child only establishes a telepathic link with the facilitator, not with anyone else, hence FC only works when the facilitator is around. Or how about the facilitator who communicated with a person who was *literally in a coma?* ESP could work as an explanation. And so on!
There is a New Age concept known as "Crystal Children" which fits neatly into the FC matrix. Who knows, maybe they really are connected somehow? The idea seems to be that children with severe mental challenges are really extremely spiritual and filled with ancient wisdom etc, etc.
It´s rather common that alternative thinkers, when faced with difficulties proving the physical existence of a phenomenon, resort to supranaturalist explanations. Why is Bigfoot so elusive? Maybe because he isn´t a flesh-and-blood creature, but a woodland elf. Indeed, why is it so difficult to get conclusive evidence for any "alternative" claims? Maybe because they are caused by spirits who are tricksters and use fairy glamour to get away? Why can´t the US military ever down a UFO? Because the aliens are really angels or demons. Here we see a similar logic at play: the type 3 autists are immortal reincarnating savant-souls inhabiting (for whatever karmic reasons) a severly impaired body-mind. (Wait ten years and gender dysphoria will be "explained" in the same way: it´s an eternal - and eternally gendered soul - trapped in the physical body of the wrong biological sex.)
I happen to be open-minded to the paranormal / supernatural, so I actually consider this something of a problem. That is, people resorting to the preternatural in ad hoc fashion. Maybe a squatch is a woodland sprite, but if so, please freakin´ prove it, rather than using that claim as an escape hatch from the somewhat embarrasing fact that no physical specimen has ever been secured. Note also that in the case of FC, the failure rate under controlled conditions is 100%, which is a worse result than any experiment with telepathy or remote viewing I´m familiar with!
If you need to associate an alleged physical phenomenon with controversial paranormal claims in order to make it sound more plausible, you really have no leg to stand on.
Only in America? A classical documentary from 1993, "Prisoners of Silence", exposing Facilitated Communication (FC). Or is it a cult?
This is a prequel to the more recent Telepathy Tapes. Under controlled conditions, FC literally *never* works, which means that there is more (alleged/purported) evidence for supernatural phenomena! So ironically, the current paranormal version of FC might actually look *more* convincing than the old school secular ditto...
Ten years from now, somebody will make a similar documentary about, shall we say, certain aspects of Gender Ideology, just wait.
OK, this was interesting. Is there *some* opening for techno-cornucopianism somewhere? But even if we can *communicate* faster than the speed of light, can we also *travel* faster? What would be the energy source in such a case? Soylent green or what?
Note that Sabine debunks the idea that "quantum entanglement" means "spooky action at a distance".
I admit that this was a bit over my head, but the idea that more "common sense" in quantum physics leads to the idea that we *can* send messages faster than light is obviously interesting. And yes, Sabine actually says that she went into science hoping to find a way to communicate with extraterrestrials!
Professor Dave will attack in 10, 9, 8...LOL.
A new "free energy" paper has just dropped, and Sabine Hossenfelder isn´t terrible impressed. Neither am I. But...note that Zabineh actually says that vacuum might really be a medium, a kind of non-luminiferous aether as it were. Or rather that such an idea isn´t completely "out there" in and of itself.
Are we finally getting somewhere? Bring back pre-Lost Generation science!
A "pro-UFO" article published at a popular science website. Here is an interesting excerpt:
>>>Across 14 disciplines at 144 major U.S. research universities, 1,460 faculty responded to their 2023 national survey. Most surveyed believed UAP research was important. Curiosity outweighed skepticism in every discipline that was part of the study. Nearly one-fifth had personally observed something aerial they could not identify. Yet fewer than 1% had ever conducted UAP-related research.
>>>The gap was not explained by intellectual dismissal, but it was in part explained by fear. Researchers were not primarily deterred by intellectual skepticism because they doubted the topic's merits. Instead, they feared they might lose funding, face ridicule from colleagues or find their careers quietly derailed. Faculty reported being told to "be careful."
>>>A 2024 follow-up study found that roughly 28% said they might vote against a colleague's tenure case for conducting UAP research, even when they personally believed the topic warranted study.
Obviously, this has consequences for other areas of research, too...
Apparently, some quantum physicists have proven that objective reality is, well, objectively real. I mean, dude, what a mind job!
It´s shit like this that makes me...I don´t know...hit somebody. Maybe all of QM is bunk? Time for an "objectivist" turn in science, maybe? *Of course* reality is real. Next Q-uestion!
I´m not a great fanboy of astrology (you know, the ancient superstitious pseudo-science blah blah), but I wonder how an astrologer would interpret the intrusion of 3I/ATLAS into "our" solar system.
It´s been conjunct the Sun itself, and is currently passing very close to Jupiter. In astrology, both the Sun and Jupiter are very important. The Sun is the Self, while Jupiter (mythologically the king of the gods) is the Great Benefic. Comets, by contrast, are invariably seen as malefic. Recent research suggests that 3I/ATLAS is 12 billion years old! What could it mean that an ancient malefic is fucking with the Sun and Jupiter (or should I say Helios and Zeus) at the very cusp of the Age of Aquarius...
Probably nothing. I mean, it´s just some lump of dead matter, right? But if I had been an astrologer, I would probably be very, very worried right now!
