When I said you, I didn't really mean "you you". I meant "generally, you..."
OK I can accept that. I did actually think I was ME though but I could be wrong there I guess.
Yup, because back then there was no evidence for it whatsoever... actually, DM was already firmly established 50 years ago.
Was it? Well there's something else that I learned today. Make it 500 then. Either way I think you agree on the point.
If we start considering every crackpot idea without any evidence, we might as well start teaching the existence of pink unicorns and centaurs.
Cool
That would be fun. I think most unicorns are actually flourescent green though.
It doesn't mean that they will do so either. This is the way science works. If there's no evidence for it, it's kinda silly to believe in it, doesn't it?
Now here I don't really agree with you. There are a bunch of things (UFO sightings included) that have been officially classified as
unexplained.
I don't expect you to beleive every word I say. As I have said before. I am waiting for a reasonable explanation for my experiences and those of others.
Some "eyewitness" reports may well be imagined, exagerated or even just plain fraudulent. I will be the first to admit that this could even extend to most of them. Others like my own are impossible to verify.
So where does that leave us?
I don't know. I fully understand your skepticism. I would just like to see some real effort to find out what is going on instead of offhand dismissals. I watch all the TV shows on paranormal stuff and I find that they are either people
trying to prove the existence of the supernatural or people
trying to disprove it.
In the former case, "beleivers" tend to take stuff at face value or use methods which are clearly unscientific.
In the second, "unbeleivers" tend to use whatever methods they can find to discredit it while ignoring possible methods that could validate the research.
real scientists simply beleive it is impossible based on incomplete knowlegde of the subject, then just dismiss it as you are doing. These people generally aren't even willing to investigate for themselves.
In short
both sides appear to have an agenda.
The only thing I have
never seen is a genuine project to investigate paranormal activity of any kind, using all available research tools and run by unbiased researchers.
PY