Q&A: How does science justify debunking mysteries without investigation?

by Lawrence OP

Question by : How does science justify debunking mysteries without investigation?
“Explaining away” without proper investigation explains nothing.

I wish science would stop dismissing the observations of honest witnesses.

Most encounters with the unexplained and unknown happen to people with zero interest or working knowledge of the “mysteries” that they stumble upon.

Weird things do not happen to people because they are “believed in.”

Paranormal things become believed in because they are seen and experienced.

Your failure to understand these events in no way negates their validity.

Heaven help those innocent eyewitnesses who stumble across UFOs and “aliens” or “monsters” or “ghosts.” Our “known” laws of our “reality” OFTEN cease to apply. There will always be learned “experts” and “men of science” who just know that all these phenomena are delusions or alcohol-related and act accordingly. Like most of us, they demand a logical and rational accounting for every claim and occurrence. Unlike most of us, where no accounting is available, they invent one, with neither investigation nor specific cause. I have named this perpetual reaction by some individuals to the unexplained and unknown the CUTE (Compulsive Urge To Explain) factor. Despite the acronym, this ridicule isn’t pretty.

Science has been defined as “the study of the physical and natural world and phenomena, especially by using systematic observation and experiment” and a scientist is often described as “an expert in science or somebody who has scientific training or works in one of the sciences.” To quote the late author John A. Keel: “Science has become a sacred cow in this generation but that term is a misnomer. The gender is wrong. Science, by and large, is a lot of bull.”

Read “The Streetlight Effect” by author and journalist David H. Freedman in the July-August 2010 issue of Discover magazine to learn why scientists look for answers where the looking is good, rather than where the answers are hiding.

Try http://www.freedman.com to learn how even top-shelf science and medicine ends up leading us astray more and more often. His latest book is called “WRONG: Why experts* keep failing us–and how to know when not to trust them.”

Most scientists spend their careers looking for answers where the light is better rather than where the truth is more likely to lie.

Best answer:

Answer by R G
7 billion ppl dont see ufo’s and monsters and…..
so should we believe the 10-20 ppl really see them??
u quote a site that say: “Experts and Studies: Not Always Trustworthy” and the 10-20 must be? looll

ty for make me laugh =)

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