Tyson vs. Rogan or — Science vs. Idiocy?
I’ve avoided Joe Rogan like the plague as he simply seemed nothing more than the physical manifestation of pontificating male ignorance. However, I was curious to hear what Neil deGrasse Tyson had to say to Rogan regarding the Pentagon’s report on UFOs so I thought I’d give it a watch. Oh, how I wish I hadn’t.
Not surprisingly Tyson wipes the floor with Rogan as he clearly explains the scientific method to Rogan and how nothing in the report indicates aliens or spaceships in the slightest. This shocks the ‘open-minded’ Rogan so the ‘open-minded’ Rogan responds with various examples of unexplained sightings that the ‘open-minded’ Rogan feels acts as irrefutable ‘proof’ only for Tyson to then destroy Rogan’s examples by asking all the questions a scientist would ask — was the equipment these phenomena recorded on properly calibrated and checked? Has this equipment since been tested? etc. Essentially ruling out every reasonable possibility before even going anywhere near aliens as the answer.
Yet Rogan responds in the way typical of all pontificators and that’s by using ‘impressive’, but intellectually empty, language. ‘But maybe these craft are ‘transmedium’?’ Rogan says, as though he’s just watched the James Cameron’s film ‘The Abyss’ and thought it was a documentary, to which Tyson replies that Rogan can believe in anything he wants, he’s free to do that, but if he starts stating these beliefs as facts then he must, and is indeed obliged, to present irrefutable proof and evidence to an extent that is utterly undeniable to every scientist on the planet. Rogan, not surprisingly, is unable to do so.
Yet after this Rogan has another guest on for an alternate take. This person declares themselves as a ‘sceptic’ to signal how open-minded they are too, although it quickly becomes apparent that the only thing this person is sceptical of is rationality, reason and clear thinking.
They agree with Rogan that the Pentagon UFO report is not only conclusive proof that aliens are visiting us in spaceships but that this is also the reason that QAnon has been demonised and that all this had been already told to the general population years ago in the form of the TV show ‘The X-Files’ which was Chris Carter’s way, with help from shady governmental forces, of educating the people about the oncoming alien visits, possibly using transmedium craft.
Rogan enthusiastically agrees and is delighted in finding a fellow moron who shares his beliefs and that this is exactly just like a film he saw by James Cameron called ‘The Abyss’.
Now it goes without saying that belief in conspiracy theories or UFO-ology or whatever is nothing more than a bunch of pontificating narcissists with a superiority complex paddling about in a pool of wilful ignorance because it’s only in areas devoid of any academic rigour, intellectual discourse, self examination or peer review that they can spout their anti-intellectual bollocks. But people have always believed in bollocks for the glorification of their own ego since the beginning of time so why get bothered about this?
You see,what bothers me about Rogan is how he likes to position himself as a free thinker; but he isn’t, in any way whatsoever. He’s an utter idiot who seems, from what I’ve seen of him, incapable of rational thinking let alone any other kind. And having an open mind doesn’t mean opening it so wide that any old shit can fall into it. There’s such a thing as discernment and without that an open mind is just a hole in your head.
Apparently Rogan’s been moaning men such as himself — white millionaires — are having their free speech curtailed. From what little I’ve seen of Rogan then dear god, I can only hope so as that day can’t come soon enough.
