"The reliable cases are uninteresting and the interesting cases are unreliable"He was also correct when he said the following in Demon Haunted World:
"There are no cases – despite well over a million UFO reports since 1947 – in which something so strange that it could only be an extraterrestrial spacecraft is reported so reliably that misapprehension, hoax or hallucination can be reliably excluded.”And in the Varieties of Scientific Experience, where he says:
“It is remarkable that in all these million cases there is not one example of physical evidence that sustains even the most casual scrutiny. No pieces of spacecraft chipped off with a penknife and put into an envelope and carried back for laboratory examination of exotic alloys. No photograph of the interior of the spacecraft or the extraterrestrials, or a page from the captain’s logbook. Somehow, in all of these cases, there is not a single example of concrete physical evidence. And that again is suggestive, I maintain, that we are dealing with some combination of psychopathology and conscious fraud and the misapprehension of natural phenomena, but not what is alleged by those who see UFOs.”
It’s been fairly convincingly documented that Sagan was a paid government shill/debunker
BTW, even most pastors can readily detect craziness as a number of research studies have docmented.
Raging narrow minded haughty blind bias is a poor foudation for discovery or truth.
And in my experience on such threads, ignorant jerks are rarely attractive.