The fascinating thing is that the in-flight movie was Big, and allegedly they were showing the version where at the end we’re back in the classroom, and…
Isn’t the explanation for events involving the supernatural always Ball Lightning?
swamp gas and/or shady real estate developers.
And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids…
I think I can help you, and point out where you went wrong.
Stop.
At my advanced age (mid-50s) I’ve just stopped barking at the moon. If the “someone” believes this type of stuff, what makes you think that they’d be open to any intelligent argument to the contrary?
I feel the same way about other conspiracy loons as well.
A decade behind you but I feel the same way. I used to trust the scientific community but with p-hacking, unreproducible scientific papers , etc - I am not so sure anymore. I guess cops watch out for other cops, car salesmen watch out for other car salesmen and scientists for other scientists. Just like entropy, Human biases always win.
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