Promoted concocted claims, like other phony “UFO experts” and credentialed conmen enabled by Lex Fridman

Summary

• I invited Prof. Robin Hanson to substantiate his bizarre, unscientific claims about extraterrestrials, their lives, histories, motives, behaviors, etc.
• Hanson failed to respond, an admission he lied and fabricated his claims
• Hanson had help promoting his farce by Lex Fridman, who enabled other bogus credentialed conmen

Details

The now trendy topic of UFOs, formerly relegated to the tabloids, has always attracted an abundance of charlatans, phonies and quacks, largely because there was no credible evidence and no scientific standards for analyzing any, should it be presented.

However, along with the seemingly open admissions about the existence of UFOs from the US government in the past few years, there’s been a flood of so-called “UFO experts” rushing forth, not only from the ranks of the obviously unqualified disinformation-spreading shills, but also including supposed scientists, seeking celebrity, book deals, etc.

One of the first to take advantage of the uncritical acceptance of this trend was Avi Loeb, a Harvard scientist who parlayed his bogus, unsubstantiated claims about a hunk of rock hurtling through space into a very profitable enterprise. Other limelight-seeking scientists, who also knew nothing of significance but plunged ahead anyway, include Dr. Jonathan Jiang of JPL, Prof. Paul Wright, the poseurs at SETI, NASA, Asteroid Day, etc.

Of course, none of them dared utter a word about the singularly authentic Billy Meier UFO contacts, the most important true story in all of science and human history. Phony “futurist” Clif High, recently had a melt-down when he couldn’t substantiate his own, envious attacks on Meier.

One of the most widely published and publicized scientists publicly professing specific, factual knowledge about the existence of extraterrestrials, their behaviors, histories, motives, etc., is Prof. Robin Hanson.

In our two-hour conversation, I introduced Hanson to the Billy Meier UFO contacts and its singularly authentic evidence which, surprisingly, he knew nothing about. He asked me to send him the information for his review, which I did several times but without any responses from him.

About a month later, Hanson was interviewed by Christopher Chalfant, during which time he admitted to still not having looked at, or into, the Meier evidence, independent expert analyses and authentications, scientific information, etc.

Another Invitation

Recently, I sent Hanson an invitation to have a second conversation in which he would substantiate his claims that:

• • “Advanced aliens really are out there, and we have enough data to say roughly where they are in space and time, and when we will see or meet them.”
  • “If we were to know about them (extraterrestrial intelligence) we would HATE them or find them repulsive. That is their strategy.”
  • “If they were to be here they would be here only to impress us.”
  • “No alien civilizations have substantially colonized our solar system or systems nearby. Thus among the billion trillion stars in our past universe, none has reached the level of technology and growth that we may soon reach. This one data point implies that a Great Filter stands between ordinary dead matter and advanced exploding lasting life.”
  • “Since we have not been able to detect alien life (or leave the solar system much, for that matter), how far are we from being caught up in some event that would bar us from ever finding aliens? ‘The easier it was for life to evolve to our stage, the bleaker our future chances probably are.’ (In other words, the more life there is in the cosmos, the greater the likeliness that we are about to reach a cataclysmic, life-ending event or reach the cosmic limits of technological advancement.)”
  • “Somewhere in that series of states exists an insurmountable obstacle, which is why our galaxy isn’t swarming with alien life.”
  • “The panspermia theory consists of 2 assumptions.  What are they? This means there is no evidence for them, right? so the hypothesis is, they’re here to convince us not to expand.”
  • ”If there were life thousands of light years away, it could’ve been around for millions or billions of years,” he told Mic. “If someone is alive out there, they would’ve long since developed as much as they can. If they didn’t spread out [to Earth], it means they’re stuck. And just being near other civilizations [in the globular cluster] doesn’t make them any less stuck, no matter how much they developed economically and socially.”
    “If everyone is looking in random directions, the chance of coordinating communication is small,” Hanson told Mic. “You have to find another coordination structure.”
  • “Right after you see a supernova, you piggyback off that and send a signal in the same direction,” Hanson told Mic. “When you see that light, it will move past the cluster. So there will be that burst of light, and right behind it, the signal. You’re going to be waiting a while, but when you see that, we can use it to figure out how to talk effectively.”
  • “But keep this in mind when you’re thinking about potential planets on the edge of the galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy is roughly 100,000 light-years across. The nearest globular clusters, NGC 6397 and Messier 4, are about 7,200 light-years away. So if we try to send communications to any of the who-knows-how-many planets within them, it would take 7,200 years to receive.”

I received this reply from Hanson:

“I am not interested in further discussion of ‘the evidence and information from Billy Meier’. I’m more open to discussing the other topics. Is there a qualified third party that might join us in such a discussion?”

I then told him that declining to substantiate his claims, and/or failing to respond to arrange a conversation in which he would do so, would be regarded as an admission that he is unable and unqualified to do so. 

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