Tag Archives: Cryptozoology

Research groups’ useful social function is not “being scientific”

By | August 1, 2011

The LA Times reports on the MUFON conference with the headline “convention emphasizes scientific methods”. The reporter then skewers this idea by showing how at least some of the attendees have thoroughly embraced the idea of alien visitation and human-alien hybridization. Oh my. The reporter doesn’t have to go to the fringe to point out… Read More: Research groups’ useful social function is not “being scientific” »

Studying modern day amateur scientists and researchers or “What the hell was that?”

By | August 10, 2010

I’m off inside my own head these days… My main project is my Masters’ thesis in Science and the Public. I started gathering data this summer; fall will be consumed with crunching data, making sense of it and writing it up. I’ll graduate in February, barring any unforeseen disasters. The hardest part about a thesis… Read More: Studying modern day amateur scientists and researchers or “What the… »