[cookiengineer]

> None of those planes look like UFOs and they wouldn't move in the same reported ways, either.

Yet today's pop culture conspiracy theorists tried to raid Area 51 for their beliefs.

Don't get me wrong: I believe in alien life. But I don't believe in conspiracy theorists that are blind to the obvious in correlations of evidence.

Scientific theory is about bayesian reasoning, not about proving to yourself that you're right; which is a likely phenomenon in the thinking nature of conspiracy theorists.

[mech422]

If by 'today's you mean last year or so...

The Area51 raid was an imgur joke...I think Chuck Norris and Shaggy were supposed to lead it. (The 2 most powerful memes on the internet...)

[IncRnd]

> Scientific theory is about bayesian reasoning, not about proving to yourself that you're right; which is a likely phenomenon in the thinking nature of conspiracy theorists.

For that comment to be true, there would be no science without bayesian reasoning. Since bayesian reasoning differs from hypothetico-deductive, that is false.

[thotsBgone]

How do they differ?