The Insidious Propagation of Ignorance, and the Shameless Promotion of Uninformed Opinions, Statements, and Conclusions.

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Greetings. The Internet has presented a platform for the public, at least those who are not residents of authoritarian dictatorships, to seek out, spread, and promote information, all at the push of a button. Unfortunately, despite what far too many people seem to think, not everything on the Internet is true. It should go without saying, but in today's society, where many believe that humans lived alongside non-avian dinosaurs, that the Earth is flat, that the Apollo Moon landings were faked, and that the Sun orbits the Earth, people have to be constantly reminded. 

As it applies to the UFO problem, the spreading of false information and the prevalence of belief structures based on such erroneous content has resulted in an embarrassing and disconcerting situation. People believe things that are simply untrue, and worse yet, some who have public platforms on social media (X, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, etc....) are using their podiums to make uninformed statements about historical cases of importance, thereby misinforming their listeners and/or followers. 

Now are these individuals knowingly misleading their fans? In most cases, likely not. (It must be said that my statement is only an opinion. I could be completely wrong, and there is no way to know for sure.) Having initially been a part of the UFO research community, and now just a passionate observer of the disheveled arena that is the UFO subculture, I have been witness over the past three-plus decades to some outstanding and well-informed presentations, statements, and bodies of dogged research work by the likes of my own wife Venus Miranda, Kevin Randle, Philip Mantle, Barry Greenwood, David Marler, Frank Kimbler, Donald Schmitt, and the late researchers Coral and Jim Lorenzen, Ted Phillips, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and Dr. James E. McDonald. (I have had to leave some important names off this admittedly incomplete list, and for that I offer my sincerest apologies.) However, with so many people active on the Internet and social media, and with so many of them having shows, podcasts, and/or blog platforms, can we, or should we, assume that each and every one of these individuals is conducting thorough research into the subjects they are publicly discussing? In a word, no. 

I have always strongly encouraged my readers to do their own homework, to dive headfirst into the research, and to inform themselves instead of taking up their individual positions based solely on what anyone, including yours truly, happens to declare. Unfortunately, too many in the UFO subculture don't entertain such actions, instead choosing to believe their prophet of choice, be it the historian turned celebrity Richard Dolan, the unaccomplished Peter Robbins, the retired clerk Nick Pope, the late storyteller Clifford Stone, Jeremy Corbell, the yoga instructor of the UFO "community," the once well-respected, now disgraced Jacques Vallee, or the shameless promoters of hoaxed content that are Jaime Maussan and Paola Harris, among many, many others of far lesser standing in the UFO social club. This blind embracement of potentially false claims and/or inaccurate information results in the widespread misinforming of the UFO faithful, a situation which has been slowly progressing since the Internet first began to make inroads into our society. 

We should question everything we are exposed to, regardless of how dependable the source appears to be. If we don't apply some critical thinking or logical reasoning, or simply think for ourselves, we may be getting misinformed, with the ultimate fault being our own ufological pill to swallow.  

Just this particular afternoon, my friend Kevin Randle posted an outstanding article about the current situation, with the blog appearing on his platform "A Different Perspective."

Kevin's article is available at the following link: http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2025/10/thesneezingmonkey-fails-in-debunking.html

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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