William G. Pullin

Greetings. Where are all the high quality UFO photographs? In previous decades, UFO investigators were constantly on the search for physical evidence to corroborate witness testimonials. The late Ted Phillips looked for and examined physical trace cases. The late Dr. J. Allen Hynek attempted to collect tangible proof during the course of his field investigations, including during the latter stages of his association with the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book. Historical UFO researchers from Jim and Coral Lorenzen and Dr. James E. McDonald, to modern-day researchers Kevin D. Randle, James Clarkson, and David Marler have continued the investigative exercises, all in an attempt to find physical, tangible, falsifiable evidence of the UFO problem.  Ray Stanford used to say that he carried a loaded camera with him at all times, which was a logical course of action back in the heady days before the advent of cellular technology. Nowadays, by contrast, literally billions of human...

Greetings. Investigative scientific integrity. The dogged adherence to a set methodology, a highly professional course of action, or actions, which allow for an unbiased, legitimate, and dispassionate examination of an alleged event, or of an alleged witnesses' testimonial.  Scientific integrity is the condition which results from the strict and unwavering adherence to professional values, practices, and methodologies when conducting scientific activities that ensures clarity, objectivity, and reproducibility, while providing unassailable insulation from bias, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, inappropriate influence(s,) political interference, and censorship. Quite a mouthful, but an essential one without question.  Investigative integrity, in my humble opinion, involves a far more personal set of ethics, standards, and methodologies. Maintaining one's own investigative integrity involves conducting one's self with honor, honesty, and distinction. It demands that the...

Greetings. Hitchens' Razor. Hitchens' razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. The razor states: "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." The razor is credited to author, critic, and journalist Christopher Eric Hitchens. It declares that the burden of proof regarding a claim lies squarely with the individual making the claim. If this burden is not satisfied, then the claim is deemed to be unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it. Hitchens used the phrase specifically in the context of refuting religious belief. The razor appears in Hitchens' magnificent 2007 book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."  The term "Hitchens' Razor" itself made its first appearance in an online forum in October of 2007, and was later popularised by evolutionary biologist and atheist activist Jerry Coyne after Hitc...