IMO, there's nothing untenable about entities from extraterrestrial origins who are present here on earth.
The same applies to some of them taking on the appearance of humans.
Ingo Swann's book "Penetrations" has a chapter titled "The Event in Los Angeles" that describes an encounter he had with a gorgeous woman who was not actually human.
Ingo Swann was a Remote Viewer paid through the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) to work on the Stargate Project. Which was funded by the DIA, not the CIA.
After he was done working within the Stargate Project he was contacted by a deep black sub-intel agency to do additional work related to NHI. That was when "The Event in Los Angeles" occurred.
As to "evidence". One persons personal experiential evidence is another persons "No evidence".
Great to see American mainstream institutions finally beginning to truly think outside the box, and in an authentic way. Maybe there's still hope . . .
I read it, and happened to have it up in a browser tab when I learned it had been taken down, so of course I downloaded it at that point!
The paper needs to be understood for what it was: An early-phase speculative social sciences paper that was essentially arguing that while there's no explicit evidence for a cryptoterrestrial hypothesis for UAP/UFOs, there's also no inherent reason to take it off the table based on how many unknowns are at play, and various folks have made arguments along these lines (the paper is largely references to these). Many of these references will be familiar to people who follow the topic.
Was it rooted in actual observational data, etc.? Not particularly – as I said, it was speculative in nature, and I think was presented openly in this spirit. The paper says this.
Why it had to be removed, I can't say. It did make for some silly headlines, though, and I doubt Harvard loved that.
It makes sense with many billions of years of evolution behind on Earth. Over a few 100 million in the past something could arise. And there have been 5 mass extinctions.
Avi Loeb wrote about possible intelligent life on Mars once being there and that there are no signs now due to meteor impact over BYs. He calculated erosion rates if I recall. Mars had an ocean 4 BY ago. 1 BY later, dry as now. But over those 1 BY could life evolve to something highly advanced? In the latter 3 BY any trace could be erased. Maybe they hopped it here or Earth's intelligent life arose by itself.
And many scientists would be totally scared to properly speculate. I mean, Man - the pinnacle of evolution! But it gets around the interstellar travel problem.
I really enjoyed this piece and am a big fan of your content. I wondered if I might be able to contact you via email/direct message with a query about some of your previous work?
When powerful lasers are being stopped mid-air at 2000 feet (SW Season 5 Episode 7) and Erik Bard and Travis Taylor are blown away (with their expertise/qualifications) that must pique interest from outside scientists. I mean, this is a ridiculous and shocking factual data point. Wonder if Brandon has been approached? They did trace a jet a short while back doing high surveys above the Ranch to the National Science Foundation.
And with some in US Gov seemingly thwarting as much UAP legislation as fast as possible, I think only a detection will move this forward. And Avi will soon have 3 independent systems up and running.
Just to get a bit Zen for a mo; is Joe Sixpack an average ideal to be pursued? I mean, is it the future of humanity to be comprised, in the most part, of laid back dudes, happy for life to wash over and around them, while seeking entertainment? I'd just like to know what I should be aiming for here.
In a thousand more years, and then a million year's time, will J6P still be with us? Is he/she an emergent property of all intelligent life, to be found in alien civilisations everywhere, blowing the froth off?
Is the search for possible signs of alien intelligence a reflection of a minority ultimate goal, a rabbit on a stick zipping around a race track, always ahead of us?
Do our potential alien visitors always return home, to sit by the pool, gaze up at the stars and down a few bevvies?
Or is there something else out there, hiding within Infinity's maze?
J6P likes to drink beer, but he's pissed at how much a sixer costs these days. He might have to trade his F-150 for some low-mileage POS, so he's not so laid back lately. But he still enjoys firing up the grill with buds on weekends. When someone asks who he's gonna vote for, J6P always says, "Does it matter? They're all corrupt. Flip a coin." He doesn't remember the last time he peeked at the local rag. He likes spraying the young'uns with the garden hose but sometimes wishes they'd leave him the hell alone. He'd rather watch sports but every now and then he'll sit still for something on Discovery or History, depending on who's controlling the remote. He might even get mildly interested in a UFO show because he saw something he couldn't explain once. He'd like to find a decent program he could put in wifey's face so she'd quit teasing him about it, but it doesn't keep him up at night.
Among carbon-based civilizations where J6P is the norm, there is no returning home because they never really leave the planet. They make a half-assed effort but that's about it. To answer your last question, yes. A rabbit on a stick . . . always ahead of us.
Perhaps advanced alien civilisation J6P has a tearaway son, who borrows dad's POS spaceship and hacks the firmware so it flies beyond Federation territory and because it comes equipped with a Mr Fusion it can make it to Earth and back on a single Bud Lite. (Unfortunately he runs into 3 high powered radars and ends up being dissected by the locals; his giant rabbit onesie convinces the military to swear everyone to secrecy.)
IMO Ross Coulthart jumped the shark in his last "Need to Know" podcast. He's way too political now. I question his motivations. He questioned Biden's mental acuity, echoing Trumpian talking points and claims Trump's afraid to tell what he knows about UAP's because he thinks he'll be murdered by the aerospace industry. If Trump knew something he would have blurted out in one of his rambling, non-sensical speeches a long time ago.
He is his own worst enemy. I wish he would avoid the histrionics and the hectoring. He could also do with shutting the hell up about the politics of a nation he is not a citizen of. I'm not American either but would never dream of wailing about what the US government owes me.
Anyways, that talk was quite fascinating until he began going off in his usual stupid manner. How many of those who've confided in him are now regretting it?
As for Trump, he clearly would be the very last president to be given any information on the subject. Any time that he hints that he'll 'release the secrets' he's merely trawling for votes. Sadly, as we've seen, there are an awful lot of credulous rubes out there willing to believe anything he says.
And that's why Coulthart's nonsense is so stupid stupid stupid: If that gets back to his camp, what are the odds that he'll begin pressing the issue ever more strongly? Given the number of votes that he needs, i'd say those odds are pretty good. And that will only hurt the subject.
It's a ridiculous situation where this guy who's allegedly been given all kinds of good information is turning out to be such a damned liability. Shades of Greer.
I'm all for suspending judgement until being convinced the cupboard is bare. As for foreigners intervening in American politics, yeah, I wish Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk had confined their values to their own tribes, too.
I cannot disagree with you. To be clear, though, I don't put Coulthart's remarks in the same vein as those from either Murdoch or Musk, whom I loathe. (Both now US citizens, in any case.) With Ross, it's more just one extra thing to be annoyed about his approach to all of this, which I find can too often be unnecessarily grandstanding in a most irritating fashion.
If I could offer him any suggestion at all it would be to learn to think a bit more before opening his trap. His credibility diminishes steadily each time he posts something to YouTube.
That's not to say that I disregard all of the things that he has revealed, but that we have a serious problem with the messenger. As I suggested above, his shooting his mouth off may have already caused some of his confidants to regret having anything to do with him.
Well, you've met the man. I haven't. I got the impression he prefers Trump because he thinks Trump will spill the beans. If Trump truly knew something he'd do it already. And if he did, half the country wouldn't believe him. Maybe this is further proof of The Phenomena screwing around in human affairs!
Ross is just another professional Ufologist who earns a living on the phenomenon.
As to Donald. The jury is still out as to why he approved the Space Force. The only reason Trump would have an interest in the phenomenon is if he could somehow profit from it.
But any chance that the scientific establishment could convince Joe Sixpack that the phenomenon really exists is now gone thanks to the entire covid canard.
It took a long time for UFOlogy to encompass aspects of the paranormal and Skinwalker has always seemed more the latter than the former, from what I've read.
A 'paranormal' ranch is convenient, if you're trying to catch anomalous events on camera, but if you're trying to predict the appearance of a UAP event (and bring as many sensors to bear as possible), that's more like predicting the next target of a serial killer and catching them in the act - i.e. next to impossible. That's assuming that historical accounts of UAP, of the type appearing as technological phenomena including biological crew, are what they appear to be. These craft can potentially visit any location on the planet and leave rather speedily. Finding any indication of such 'anomalies' in recorded data is very rare, making archaeology appear zippy by comparison. Historical human testimony is still the solid core of the best information that we have on UAP.
Skinwalker Ranch is a pretty awful lowbrow effort made for entertainment with no genuine effort to determinedly pursue the science or present objective evidence. All show and no substance. It does a huge disservice to the phenomenon and should be retired before it does more damage to the cause.
Mishandling the potential dire wolf corpse aside, I find it hard to believe the current Skinwalker Ranch investigation isn't in good hands scientifically—regardless of however the History channel may want to present and sell it—given that Dr. Travis Taylor is the one who set David Grusch to task (and can therefore be said to have kickstarted everything in the past few years) when he was head of the UAP Task Force, according to what he said in a recent interview.
Although he was historically against disclosure prior to actually knowing anything, it seems hard to reconcile that with what his current views and position appear to be, as if all his current work is really for entertainment and Grusch who he unleashed is either a deep state pawn or a mistake.
There is also a difference between a reality TV series and a documentary series, however tacky the latter may get at times to be confused with the former.
It is perplexing everything that goes on at the Skinwalker Ranch. Supposedly, the present TV show has actually excluded some of what they've captured due to the History Channel thinking it would not be believable enough to the public. Other elements have been considered too disturbing by the History Channel, such as hitchhikers, while at least a couple things they've chosen not to show themselves, such as the constant surveillance and recording of everything they say on the ranch that occurs even when something like a hundred yards away from any electronics (so unless they have implants, they are surveilled by technology unknown—source for that being another interview of Taylor's, from a couple yrs ago). Understandably in that case, radio privacy is a concern.
It's hard for me to imagine any scientific team could be good enough for it and not end up making stupid mistakes. It must've been quite a surprise when it ended up being potentially a dire wolf at all, although I suspect if the species lives there, it's for mundane reasons (i.e humans stay away, similarly to Chernobyl). Not to make excuses for them, but it at least doesn't seem an intentional error to me.
On the other hand, Jacques Vallée recently stated we are actually entering another era of secrecy, and not one of transparency and disclosure.
Good piece, Billy. Thanks. But here's the short version: How do we "hook Joe Sixpack on science"? Well, we don't hook him -- and we shouldn't try to. There is no role for entertainment in a genuine scientific investigation. We do the work, we present the findings, and we leave judgment to the people qualified to make the judgment. This isn't hard.
Sure, theoretically. But with an issue as unconventional as UAP, researchers will likely find themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to promote their findings in order to secure funding and maintain public support. And unfortunately, it seems like the only way to get people to eat broccoli anymore is to slather it in chocolate.
That is true, but it is also historically very difficult to fund and get support for science to be done in this area, as well. Science can't always be done in ideal circumstances, and sometimes, one must make do with less than the ideal. Sometimes, public support is also necessary for science to be done and make progress.
I am genuinely grateful anyone is trying at all to do such work publically today, even if it's not done with full transparency for public scientific scrutiny; even if it's in less than ideal circumstances, and they're willing to work with circus leaders who want to make a bit of a clown show of it all at times. It may not be ideal, and there is much that can and should be criticised. But I am glad anyone is trying.
Beware of people like Menzel, who spew nonsense.
Another example of government (Belgian) nonsense:
"From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Subject: Belgian Defense Sec Implements Cover Up of 1990":
https://web.archive.org/web/20111018192426/http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/may/m31-004.shtml
Apropos real UFO research.
https://web.archive.org/web/20111025100015/http://ufoupdateslist.com/
Beatriz Villarroel is a brilliant astronomer.
With a very high probability, the"vanishing stars" are UFOs.
And Menzel was another proven criminal.
New from the boys at Harvard:
"The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis: A case for scientific openness to a concealed earthly explanation for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381041896_The_cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis_A_case_for_scientific_openness_to_a_concealed_earthly_explanation_for_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena
Page 3, 2nd paragraph, of the paper is very interesting.
Sorry, Harvard – the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis is not tenable.
The only tenable hypothesis is the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Was the zero evidence for ET your reason for being convinced?
IMO, there's nothing untenable about entities from extraterrestrial origins who are present here on earth.
The same applies to some of them taking on the appearance of humans.
Ingo Swann's book "Penetrations" has a chapter titled "The Event in Los Angeles" that describes an encounter he had with a gorgeous woman who was not actually human.
Of course, the extraterrestrials are here.
"The same applies to some of them taking on the appearance of humans." No evidence of that exists.
And Ingo Swann was CIA. Enough said.
Ingo Swann was a Remote Viewer paid through the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) to work on the Stargate Project. Which was funded by the DIA, not the CIA.
After he was done working within the Stargate Project he was contacted by a deep black sub-intel agency to do additional work related to NHI. That was when "The Event in Los Angeles" occurred.
As to "evidence". One persons personal experiential evidence is another persons "No evidence".
Great to see American mainstream institutions finally beginning to truly think outside the box, and in an authentic way. Maybe there's still hope . . .
Apparently they had to take the paper down today, for some reason they cannot currently discuss. Old patterns afoot?
It's here Nick. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381405238_The_cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis_A_case_for_scientific_openness_to_a_concealed_earthly_explanation_for_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena
Maybe the paper was a hack to begin with? :-/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381405238_The_cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis_A_case_for_scientific_openness_to_a_concealed_earthly_explanation_for_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena
I read it, and happened to have it up in a browser tab when I learned it had been taken down, so of course I downloaded it at that point!
The paper needs to be understood for what it was: An early-phase speculative social sciences paper that was essentially arguing that while there's no explicit evidence for a cryptoterrestrial hypothesis for UAP/UFOs, there's also no inherent reason to take it off the table based on how many unknowns are at play, and various folks have made arguments along these lines (the paper is largely references to these). Many of these references will be familiar to people who follow the topic.
Was it rooted in actual observational data, etc.? Not particularly – as I said, it was speculative in nature, and I think was presented openly in this spirit. The paper says this.
Why it had to be removed, I can't say. It did make for some silly headlines, though, and I doubt Harvard loved that.
https://x.com/drtimlomas/status/1801492418614960257
"It's all fine. We just took it down temporarily for some corrections and amendments. Updated version available here:" Dr. Tim Lomas
It makes sense with many billions of years of evolution behind on Earth. Over a few 100 million in the past something could arise. And there have been 5 mass extinctions.
Avi Loeb wrote about possible intelligent life on Mars once being there and that there are no signs now due to meteor impact over BYs. He calculated erosion rates if I recall. Mars had an ocean 4 BY ago. 1 BY later, dry as now. But over those 1 BY could life evolve to something highly advanced? In the latter 3 BY any trace could be erased. Maybe they hopped it here or Earth's intelligent life arose by itself.
And many scientists would be totally scared to properly speculate. I mean, Man - the pinnacle of evolution! But it gets around the interstellar travel problem.
Ancient Footprints Evidence of ‘Ant People’ of Hopi Indian Lore
https://www.gaia.com/article/ancient-footprints-evidence-of-ant-people-of-hopi-indian-lore
Then there are also the Lemurians.
That is interesting!
Hey Billy!
I really enjoyed this piece and am a big fan of your content. I wondered if I might be able to contact you via email/direct message with a query about some of your previous work?
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Check yr email, Ellie.
When powerful lasers are being stopped mid-air at 2000 feet (SW Season 5 Episode 7) and Erik Bard and Travis Taylor are blown away (with their expertise/qualifications) that must pique interest from outside scientists. I mean, this is a ridiculous and shocking factual data point. Wonder if Brandon has been approached? They did trace a jet a short while back doing high surveys above the Ranch to the National Science Foundation.
Its not a "data point" it was a claim.
Maybe of the claims from the ranch are just awful...
Yep, I gotta admit, that was a truly mystifying episode. As Travis would say, "I can't wait to see the data"!
And with some in US Gov seemingly thwarting as much UAP legislation as fast as possible, I think only a detection will move this forward. And Avi will soon have 3 independent systems up and running.
The Way of Joe Sixpack?
Just to get a bit Zen for a mo; is Joe Sixpack an average ideal to be pursued? I mean, is it the future of humanity to be comprised, in the most part, of laid back dudes, happy for life to wash over and around them, while seeking entertainment? I'd just like to know what I should be aiming for here.
In a thousand more years, and then a million year's time, will J6P still be with us? Is he/she an emergent property of all intelligent life, to be found in alien civilisations everywhere, blowing the froth off?
Is the search for possible signs of alien intelligence a reflection of a minority ultimate goal, a rabbit on a stick zipping around a race track, always ahead of us?
Do our potential alien visitors always return home, to sit by the pool, gaze up at the stars and down a few bevvies?
Or is there something else out there, hiding within Infinity's maze?
J6P likes to drink beer, but he's pissed at how much a sixer costs these days. He might have to trade his F-150 for some low-mileage POS, so he's not so laid back lately. But he still enjoys firing up the grill with buds on weekends. When someone asks who he's gonna vote for, J6P always says, "Does it matter? They're all corrupt. Flip a coin." He doesn't remember the last time he peeked at the local rag. He likes spraying the young'uns with the garden hose but sometimes wishes they'd leave him the hell alone. He'd rather watch sports but every now and then he'll sit still for something on Discovery or History, depending on who's controlling the remote. He might even get mildly interested in a UFO show because he saw something he couldn't explain once. He'd like to find a decent program he could put in wifey's face so she'd quit teasing him about it, but it doesn't keep him up at night.
Among carbon-based civilizations where J6P is the norm, there is no returning home because they never really leave the planet. They make a half-assed effort but that's about it. To answer your last question, yes. A rabbit on a stick . . . always ahead of us.
Perhaps advanced alien civilisation J6P has a tearaway son, who borrows dad's POS spaceship and hacks the firmware so it flies beyond Federation territory and because it comes equipped with a Mr Fusion it can make it to Earth and back on a single Bud Lite. (Unfortunately he runs into 3 high powered radars and ends up being dissected by the locals; his giant rabbit onesie convinces the military to swear everyone to secrecy.)
It's a big universe.
This has the ring of Shakespearian tragedy. If you can develop a love interest, copyright it NOW bc you own a gold mine.
I think I detect a hint of sarcasm, but I do feel like I'm in the zone....
IMO Ross Coulthart jumped the shark in his last "Need to Know" podcast. He's way too political now. I question his motivations. He questioned Biden's mental acuity, echoing Trumpian talking points and claims Trump's afraid to tell what he knows about UAP's because he thinks he'll be murdered by the aerospace industry. If Trump knew something he would have blurted out in one of his rambling, non-sensical speeches a long time ago.
He is his own worst enemy. I wish he would avoid the histrionics and the hectoring. He could also do with shutting the hell up about the politics of a nation he is not a citizen of. I'm not American either but would never dream of wailing about what the US government owes me.
Anyways, that talk was quite fascinating until he began going off in his usual stupid manner. How many of those who've confided in him are now regretting it?
As for Trump, he clearly would be the very last president to be given any information on the subject. Any time that he hints that he'll 'release the secrets' he's merely trawling for votes. Sadly, as we've seen, there are an awful lot of credulous rubes out there willing to believe anything he says.
And that's why Coulthart's nonsense is so stupid stupid stupid: If that gets back to his camp, what are the odds that he'll begin pressing the issue ever more strongly? Given the number of votes that he needs, i'd say those odds are pretty good. And that will only hurt the subject.
It's a ridiculous situation where this guy who's allegedly been given all kinds of good information is turning out to be such a damned liability. Shades of Greer.
I'm all for suspending judgement until being convinced the cupboard is bare. As for foreigners intervening in American politics, yeah, I wish Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk had confined their values to their own tribes, too.
I cannot disagree with you. To be clear, though, I don't put Coulthart's remarks in the same vein as those from either Murdoch or Musk, whom I loathe. (Both now US citizens, in any case.) With Ross, it's more just one extra thing to be annoyed about his approach to all of this, which I find can too often be unnecessarily grandstanding in a most irritating fashion.
If I could offer him any suggestion at all it would be to learn to think a bit more before opening his trap. His credibility diminishes steadily each time he posts something to YouTube.
That's not to say that I disregard all of the things that he has revealed, but that we have a serious problem with the messenger. As I suggested above, his shooting his mouth off may have already caused some of his confidants to regret having anything to do with him.
Speaking of Biden.
What's he done to support transparency over the past 3-1/2 years, other than nothing?
If RC's a MAGAhead, I'll chew my own ears off.
Well, you've met the man. I haven't. I got the impression he prefers Trump because he thinks Trump will spill the beans. If Trump truly knew something he'd do it already. And if he did, half the country wouldn't believe him. Maybe this is further proof of The Phenomena screwing around in human affairs!
"Biden's mental acuity"
There was one?
Ross is just another professional Ufologist who earns a living on the phenomenon.
As to Donald. The jury is still out as to why he approved the Space Force. The only reason Trump would have an interest in the phenomenon is if he could somehow profit from it.
But any chance that the scientific establishment could convince Joe Sixpack that the phenomenon really exists is now gone thanks to the entire covid canard.
It took a long time for UFOlogy to encompass aspects of the paranormal and Skinwalker has always seemed more the latter than the former, from what I've read.
A 'paranormal' ranch is convenient, if you're trying to catch anomalous events on camera, but if you're trying to predict the appearance of a UAP event (and bring as many sensors to bear as possible), that's more like predicting the next target of a serial killer and catching them in the act - i.e. next to impossible. That's assuming that historical accounts of UAP, of the type appearing as technological phenomena including biological crew, are what they appear to be. These craft can potentially visit any location on the planet and leave rather speedily. Finding any indication of such 'anomalies' in recorded data is very rare, making archaeology appear zippy by comparison. Historical human testimony is still the solid core of the best information that we have on UAP.
Skinwalker Ranch is a pretty awful lowbrow effort made for entertainment with no genuine effort to determinedly pursue the science or present objective evidence. All show and no substance. It does a huge disservice to the phenomenon and should be retired before it does more damage to the cause.
Mishandling the potential dire wolf corpse aside, I find it hard to believe the current Skinwalker Ranch investigation isn't in good hands scientifically—regardless of however the History channel may want to present and sell it—given that Dr. Travis Taylor is the one who set David Grusch to task (and can therefore be said to have kickstarted everything in the past few years) when he was head of the UAP Task Force, according to what he said in a recent interview.
Although he was historically against disclosure prior to actually knowing anything, it seems hard to reconcile that with what his current views and position appear to be, as if all his current work is really for entertainment and Grusch who he unleashed is either a deep state pawn or a mistake.
There is also a difference between a reality TV series and a documentary series, however tacky the latter may get at times to be confused with the former.
It is perplexing everything that goes on at the Skinwalker Ranch. Supposedly, the present TV show has actually excluded some of what they've captured due to the History Channel thinking it would not be believable enough to the public. Other elements have been considered too disturbing by the History Channel, such as hitchhikers, while at least a couple things they've chosen not to show themselves, such as the constant surveillance and recording of everything they say on the ranch that occurs even when something like a hundred yards away from any electronics (so unless they have implants, they are surveilled by technology unknown—source for that being another interview of Taylor's, from a couple yrs ago). Understandably in that case, radio privacy is a concern.
It's hard for me to imagine any scientific team could be good enough for it and not end up making stupid mistakes. It must've been quite a surprise when it ended up being potentially a dire wolf at all, although I suspect if the species lives there, it's for mundane reasons (i.e humans stay away, similarly to Chernobyl). Not to make excuses for them, but it at least doesn't seem an intentional error to me.
On the other hand, Jacques Vallée recently stated we are actually entering another era of secrecy, and not one of transparency and disclosure.
https://www.documentjournal.com/2024/05/jacques-vallee-jeffrey-kripal-science-ufo-technology-ai/
Would love to see the link about Taylor giving a nudge to Grusch. I thought he was the UAPTF's chief scientist, not its director.
Good piece, Billy. Thanks. But here's the short version: How do we "hook Joe Sixpack on science"? Well, we don't hook him -- and we shouldn't try to. There is no role for entertainment in a genuine scientific investigation. We do the work, we present the findings, and we leave judgment to the people qualified to make the judgment. This isn't hard.
Sure, theoretically. But with an issue as unconventional as UAP, researchers will likely find themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to promote their findings in order to secure funding and maintain public support. And unfortunately, it seems like the only way to get people to eat broccoli anymore is to slather it in chocolate.
That is true, but it is also historically very difficult to fund and get support for science to be done in this area, as well. Science can't always be done in ideal circumstances, and sometimes, one must make do with less than the ideal. Sometimes, public support is also necessary for science to be done and make progress.
I am genuinely grateful anyone is trying at all to do such work publically today, even if it's not done with full transparency for public scientific scrutiny; even if it's in less than ideal circumstances, and they're willing to work with circus leaders who want to make a bit of a clown show of it all at times. It may not be ideal, and there is much that can and should be criticised. But I am glad anyone is trying.
Me too. It's the unforced errors that drive me crazy.