{"id":252,"date":"2007-01-25T08:02:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2007-01-25T08:02:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:02:32","slug":"jacques-vallee-critical-thinking-and-intelligent-ufology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/25\/jacques-vallee-critical-thinking-and-intelligent-ufology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Vallee, Critical Thinking, and Intelligent UFOlogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another preface to our upcoming series on UFOlogy\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe first was our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsturbator.com\/index.php\/brainsturbation\/comments\/libarary_update_brainsturbator_ufology_collection\/\">UFOlogy Library<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In the past month, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve received many emails from people who would rather see Brainsturbator move in a different direction.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Some of these messages have been eloquent and polite, some of them have been very confrontational\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dbut they all make the same point: on a planet where over 10,000 children die every single day due to starvation, disease, abuse or warfare, <strong>what the fuck am I doing talking about aliens?<\/strong>Well, first off, <strong>I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m not talking about aliens<\/strong>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The UFO phenomenon is way stranger than mere extraterrestrials.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s precisely why I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m interested in it, and why I will continue to cover it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dit\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s located at the center of <em>nearly all that is weird and unexplained in the human experience<\/em>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0  This is slippery territory, and it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s very easy to get tripped up on your own assumptions, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s very easy to make mistakes\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<strong>huge, retarded mistakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In short, UFOlogy is a great study to hone your critical thinking skills\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s what todays article will focus on, with some considerable help from our friend, Jacques Vallee.<\/p>\n<p>In Vallee\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s (insanely good and essential) book <em>Revelations<\/em>, he starts off by analyzing three of the bedrock foundations of the modern UFO mythology: the Majestic 12 documents, Area 51, and the Dulce underground base.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 His conclusions are vastly more damning than any \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cskeptical\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d debunking article, because rather than beginning from the assumption that the claims are false, Vallee actually investigated with an open mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsturbator.com\/index.php\/brainsturbation\/comments\/jacques_vallee_critical_thinking_and_intelligent_ufology\/\">\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another preface to our upcoming series on UFOlogy\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe first was our UFOlogy Library.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In the past month, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve received many emails from people who would rather see Brainsturbator move in a different direction.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Some of these messages &hellip; 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