{"id":2240,"date":"2025-03-10T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/claims-without-evidence-are-just-entertainment-news-can-we-all-agree-on-that-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:04:40","slug":"claims-without-evidence-are-just-entertainment-news-can-we-all-agree-on-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/claims-without-evidence-are-just-entertainment-news-can-we-all-agree-on-that-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims without evidence are just entertainment news. Can we all agree on that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims without evidence are essentially just entertainment. Can we all agree on that? I\u2019ve been trying to document and analyze the various assertions being made on my site, but the biggest challenge I face is the inability to effectively track them.<\/p>\n<p>Most claims cannot be validated without complete transparency, rendering them largely meaningless. Many are vague or open-ended, making them easy to alter if deadlines pass. Additionally, some claims allegedly have evidence but either that evidence has not been shared or could not be obtained for various reasons. What we end up with is a lot of arguing between prominent figures\u2019 assertions: \u201cAliens are harmful!\u201d \u201cNo, they\u2019re not!\u201d Or debates about the potential for a staged alien invasion.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of pseudo-academic discourse in this realm, which is concerning from an intellectual perspective. Regardless of whether you believe in this phenomenon or not, can we all agree that most of this discussion lacks the integrity of genuine journalism or academic rigor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nClaims without evidence are essentially just entertainment. Can we all agree on that? I\u2019ve been trying to document and analyze the various assertions being made on my site, but the biggest challenge I face is the inability to effectively track them. Most claims cannot be validated without complete transparency, rendering them largely meaningless. Many are&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/claims-without-evidence-are-just-entertainment-news-can-we-all-agree-on-that-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Claims without evidence are just entertainment news. Can we all agree on that?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}