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It’s been said that “He who controls the media controls the mind.” (Variously attributed to Jim Morrison of the rock band The Doors, along with Noam Chomsky.) Whoever said it, billionaires seem to have taken it to heart. Elon Musk has made 𝕏 his “de facto public town square.” Jeff Bezos has The Washington Post. Rupert Murdoch continues to consolidate conservative media outfits via Fox and News Corp (which owns The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and HarperCollins). Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has expanded from merely friending people on Facebook to Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. Brian Roberts’s Comcast is in charge of…
I’ve been trying to remember back to all the nonsense beliefs I once held, even if loosely. Of course there was religion. I was brought up in a Jewish family and didn’t reject the whole business until I was eleven or twelve years old, when I unceremoniously declared that I was an atheist. My parents took it reasonably well and eventually would join me as atheists themselves. At the time, however, it was a lonely identity; I knew no other atheists, and of course there was no way at that tender age in the 1970s to find any others. But…
Are we getting close to the time when parents would have the option of genetically engineering their children at the embryo stage? If so, is this a good thing, a bad thing, or both? In order for this to happen such engineering would need to be technically, legally, and commercially viable. Let’s take these in order, and then discuss the potential implications. The main reason this is even a topic for discussion is because genetically engineering is technically feasible. Obviously we do it to plants and animals all the time. We also have increasingly powerful and affordable technology for doing…
A new compass for the SKEPDOC column. This column was founded by Harriet Hall, MD (1945–2023) who wrote it from 2006 to 2023. In 2026, we welcome William Meller, MD, to the helm. As an expert in evolutionary medicine, Dr. Meller will be our guide in navigating the deep biological history of our species to find the “True North” of human health. On February 27, 2026, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and announced that the FDA is preparing to move approximately 14 experimental peptide compounds off its restricted list and back into the hands of compounding…
In late 2025, several European countries took increasingly significant actions in response to what they believed was a wave of unusual drones flying near sensitive infrastructure. Airports were shut down. Local police and the military went on high alert. Politicians and commentators talked about this being part of a “hybrid war” executed by Russia. At its peak, the situation even prompted calls to invoke NATO’s Article 5 collective defense mandate. From the start, other observers and I noted the parallels between these events and a similar situation in New Jersey a year earlier, which I had investigated in depth (see…
Word has just come in of the passing of the optical physicist and UFO researcher Bruce Maccabee at the age of 82. Bruce was very well-known in UFOlogy for his detailed analysis of many UFO cases, including the McMinnville UFO photos, Kenneth Arnold’s sighting, the Phoenix Lights, the Gulf Breeze photos of Ed Walters, the New Zealand films, etc. He worked with all of the major UFO organizations: NICAP, MUFON, FUFOR. He also found time to hang out with, and argue with, the likes of Phil Klass and myself. You can read all about Bruce’s investigations on his Website.Dr. Bruce…
Date of sighting: April 6, 2026Location of sighting: Ojo de Agua, MexicoSource: NUFORCThis report just in. A white UFO was seen over Mexico changing shape and moving low over the city. Such UFOs are often white when seen far away but close up…they look like something from out of this world. As I have once been 2 meters from such an orb, I can tell you, but you would never believe me. Scott C. Waring – UFO Sightings DailyEyewitness states: I was working by the window, I saw that shape changing and moving like a worm. I was working and I looked out,…
VS.“FAR MORE LOGICAL THAN A DREAM”Some critical and personal musings on Matthew Bowman’s The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights and the New Age in America, Yale University Press, 2023, 278pp. Bowman’s new version of the Hill abduction is a mostly good book. He provides considerable amounts of new biographical background about their lives prior to the ufo event that made them celebrities in the ufo culture. He had access to the papers surrounding the investigation of the primary ufo event and this adds many details and nuances to what was witnessed. We know from Bowman that…
Date of sighting: April 6, 2026Location of sighting: Visalia, California, USASource: email report to scwaring @ yahoo.comThis UFO report just in. An eyewitness was driving home from work when he noticed a strange disk shape in the sky with a long white trail behind it. He said the disk seemed to have some kind of effect over him as he suddenly felt overwhelmed with the feeling of love. As if the ship was sending out an emotional message for all who see to experience. This happens sometimes and often mentioned in other UFO reports going back to the MJ12 and…
Netflix has a new three-part documentary about the 1989 “Manhattan Alien Abduction” of Linda Napolitano. (Originally the incident was known as “The Brooklyn Bridge Abduction,” but that brought up connotations of swindlers who reportedly would try to sell naive immigrants the Brooklyn Bridge.) “A woman claims to have been abducted from her bedroom in Manhattan. This docuseries explores whether it was an elaborate hoax — or proof of alien life.” I was going to write a review saying something like this: Here is a UFO documentary that is more honest than most of them. It examines the UFO abduction claims of…