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In my Quillette article, Skeptic article and forthcoming book chapter on UFOs and UAPs Mick West my first category consisting of 95% of all sightings (based on Leslie Kean’s own analysis) are “ordinary terrestrial” (satellites, planes, balloons, birds, Venus, reflections, etc.)

If current land owners are not willing to give back the land or financially compensate a Native American tribe/nation for the “stolen” land, then these land acknowledgments are nothing more than virtue signaling and a sign that the proclaimer is a hypocrite. End the practice!

Here Mick West Eric Weinstein from Leslie Kean’s 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, her list of what constitutes “roughly 90 to 95 percent of UFO sightings”: "weather balloons, flares, sky lanterns, planes flying in formation, secret

Re Bernie Sanders beef about billionaires & oligarchs & his focus on Elon Musk Jeff Bezos et al., is an example of Survivorship Bias: focus on individuals, groups, or cases that have passed a selection process while ignoring those who did not. Musk & Bezos almost went bankrupt,

Is there another kind?

São Paulo has a huge vegan/vegetarian wellness community with lots of vegan restaurants. This isn’t one of them.

El Tour de São Paulo. Beco do Batman art district…

More São Paulo

This week we present an epic debate I hosted on my podcast with neuroscientist Christof Koch and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor on the nature of consciousness, the mind, the soul, and the afterlife: skeptic.com/michael-sherme…

Technically speaking...when everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone has read When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows...THEN sudden and massive change can happen.

The author we published years ago in Skeptic, John Anthony Glynn, who turned out to have faked his Ph.D. & other academic credentials, appears to have resurfaced as John Mac Ghlionn & now appears to use LLMs to generate articles he's gotten published: thecritic.co.uk/publish-or-be-…

mindmatters.ai/2025/06/mind-n…

"abolishing the sex binary for the entire society? That’s a whole other thing entirely. And madness, I believe. What if I redefined what it is to be heterosexual and imposed it on straight people?" Well argued as always Andrew Sullivan nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opi…

“A penis is not a male body part. It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.” Unusual? If my grandmother had balls she'd be my grandfather. nytimes.com/2025/06/19/mag…

The trans movement probably thinks of itself as tolerant, but it is, in fact, intolerant and open anti-gay: "of a cohort of 70 adolescents referred to an Amsterdam clinic from 2000 to 2008, 62 were same-sex attracted. And it’s easy to see that one way to “cure” yourself of

“Mutual Assured Destruction for Iranians is not a deterrence but an incentive.” —Bernard Lewis (Paraphrased quote from Bari Weiss guest on this important podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/02SlHZ…

“I’m not retreating. I’m advancing to the rear”

It’s not right that the People’s Republic of California is criticized for bureaucratic incompetence. Look here: all the green segments are open for use on our shiny new high-speed rail.