tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post6066372244522820366..comments2024-03-07T12:48:21.070+00:00Comments on MAGONIA REVIEW: THE BRAINS IN SPAINUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-57980040589281013952015-06-09T16:18:50.144+01:002015-06-09T16:18:50.144+01:00I couldn't agree more, Peter. Vallee has alway...I couldn't agree more, Peter. Vallee has always been a conspiracy-minded believer and trickster who'll say any silly thing to keep the long-failed hypothesis (trufos exist) under consideration. It's the very definition of pseudoscience.zoamchomskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519698426338891542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-2663193064073788942015-06-07T00:35:29.573+01:002015-06-07T00:35:29.573+01:00Nigel reports on Jacques Vallée:
'Jacques kno...Nigel reports on Jacques Vallée:<br /><br />'Jacques knows there is something unusual going on. “I don’t have a personal theory,” he says. “I’m not trying to sell a theory. I can’t give an answer, but there does seem to be a non-human consciousness that seems to be amongst us that is an enigma that science needs to study.”<br /> [...]<br /> '“As civilisation has developed people integrate the UFO phenomenon into their lives as folklore and mythology, and it seems to act as a control system. The question is are we creating this control system or is something outside us that is manipulating us?”'<br /><br />I first came across Vallée's notion of a “control system” in Messengers of Deception (1979 edition, read around 1981), and was struck, and frustrated, by the book's lack of dénouement. Regardless of the obscure source of this alleged ‘system’, it was never clear what, precisely, was being controlled, or to what end. Or even what, by way of a chain of evidence, led Vallée to think such a thing was in place. Bad methodology for a self-declared scientist, what?<br /><br />Thirty-five years later, Vallée is still titillating anyone who will listen with this vacuity. We still don't know what he thinks the point of this control system is, or what its mechanism is, or why he still thinks it exists. Time enough, one would have thought, to have got a little somewhere with the idea (e.g. by way of evidence). Vallée persists in other evidence-free speculations, such as his uproarious notion that crop circles are created by some kind of experimental beam weapons. (Yes, mate. Bunch of blokes carrying torches.) <br /><br />As I recall, a later Vallée offering was reviewed in Magonia under the heading “Down in Paranoia Gulch”, or something of the kind. Plus ça change. Why does anyone take him seriously?<br /><br />—Peter B<br /><br />The Duke of Mendozahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14335501899298333878noreply@blogger.com