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=== 2024 ===

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|content=Many of you are asking for my reaction regarding the just released @DoD_AARO report. There is much to say. I want to think carefully before saying more. I am not unsympathetic to US National Security needs in this.

In February of 2023, @joerogan invited me for four hours onto the world's largest English Language program (episode #1945) to describe in detail the mystery of potential US Government involvement in UFOs and Post-Einsteinian physics during the mysterious [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|"Golden Age of General Relativity"]]. It has been seen and discussed by millions as expected. I was thus eager to see how thorough this report would be by combing it for  search strings raised in my research.

REFERENCES:

"Glenn L Martin Company": 0</br>
Bryce Cecile DeWitt: 0</br>
Institute for Field Physics: 0</br>
Research Institute for Advanced Study: 0</br>
Louis Witten:  0</br>
Roger Babson: 0</br>
Agnew Bahson: 0</br>
Gravity Research Foundation: 0</br>
Gravity: 1 (pg. 32)</br>
Rennaisance Technologies: 0</br>
UNC Chapel Hill: 0</br>
Solomon Lefschetz: 0</br>
Freeman Dyson: 0</br>
Herman Bondi: 0</br>
Negative Mass: 0</br>
"Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem"</br>
Australian Intelligence 1971 Report: 0</br>
Australia: 0</br>
George Rideout: 0</br>
Edward Teller: 0</br>
Robert Oppenheimer: 0</br>
David Kaiser: 0</br>
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: 1 (pg. 18)</br>
Curtis Wright Aerospace Buffalo: 0</br>
Pascal Jordan: 0</br>
[[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Ammendment]]: 0</br>
Joshua Goldberg: 0</br>
Office of Global Access: 0</br>
University of Texas, Austin: 0</br>
Center for Dynamical Systems: 0</br>
Physics: 5 (pgs. 16-17, 53)</br>
Relativity: 0</br>
Albert Einstein: 0</br>
George Bunker: 0</br>
Welcome Bender: 0</br>
George Trimble: 0

CONCLUSION: This report purports to have studied the questions raised surrounding UFO/UAP related research of the US federal Government. It, in fact, appears to have studied a carefully chosen  SUBSET of the claims selected from among those which appear to have mass appeal to the so-called "UFO Community." It completely, or nearly completely, avoided reporting on all questions surrounding issues which have been raised in serious research and by PhD level researchers who have raised scientific questions in this area. This continues the pattern of using PhD level government scientists who appear to avoid the actual research questions most likely to involve sensitve Special Access Programs and Stovepiped Research which are compartmentalized by design. Whether the omissions are due to issues of avoidance, misdirection (e.g. so-called Limited Hangout strategy), ignorance or incompetance cannot be discerned from the information given.

RECOMMENDATION: It is simply not possible to treat the current AARO report as historically complete or comprehensive. To gain the public trust, the successor to AARO would have to expand and redo this analysis with input from domain professionals who are trusted by the public not to have an apparent agenda or government background (e.g. Prof. David Kaiser of MIT or Dr. Nima Arkani Hamed of IAS, Prof. Brian Keating of UCSD, Avi Loeb of Harvard) Otherwise, it is relatively easy for scientists to [[Follow the Silence|"Follow the Silence"]] in government reports to see what is *not* being addressed or discussed.
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|content=Today the DoD released our Historical Record Report Volume 1. 

AARO’s report covers more than 70 years of the U.S. record relating to UAP, draws from interviews, archival research, and partnerships across government and industry. 

Read it here: https://statics.dod.teams.microsoft.us/evergreen-assets/safelinks/1/atp-safelinks.html
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|content=This *is* what science looks like right now.

Does this sound like real science? Even at a passing level? Just see. Read it.

“People studying misinformation lean left for two reasons:”

Extraordinary claim. Supported by….? I mean…Huge if true! I would have thought there would be complicated effects of political economy in science funding as well. But there is no discussion of any such effects. 

It’s just two causes. Who knew.

“1. scientists lean left, regardless of specialty, because they care about facts.”

I mean….damn. I don’t even understand the argument. It feels like “because” is doing all the work here. 

No discussion of history (e.g. [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|The Mansfield Amendment]]), incentive structures, institutional dependence. Just a bald assertion known as an appeal to authority. The author is a professor, after all. 
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“2. misinformation today primarily comes from the Right ("they're eating the dawwwgs!") which makes it worth studying and fighting against for people leaning left.”

Appeal to ridicule. Strawmanning. Yes, Donald Trump is no scientist. 

But the Institutional Left has been wrong all over the place, no? On sex, heritability, public health, viral origins, migration externalities, and prediction of elections via failure to adjust for preference falsification at scale. 

What is this? I don’t know.  It’s not the science you grew up witb that changed everything and illuminated the world.

My point is not to vilify Dr LeCun. It is to point out what institutional science NOW looks like. It used to look totally different.

But in 2024, it looks like exactly like this. 

This tweet ⬇️ below. Learn to spot it.
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