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Originally Posted by Open Mind  for example the attitude of people dismissing a scientist because he showed an interest in UFO phenomena... it happens. |
It depends, if you are skeptical of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, I won't dismis you as a good scientist. Because I myself have an interrest in the UFO phenomena.
But of course if you're like Sturrock, and you're a extraterrestrial hypothesis proponent, I would dismiss you has a being not a good scientist, that's for sure...
It all depend how critical you are of weird hypothesis... or not...
Like Alex is not at all critical in any kind of way (that's call being gullible) of any weird hypothesis (he's in the realm of the "anything weird goes" as I call it. Only mainstream science doesn't do it for him). So (he's not at all a scientist, but for the argument's sake) I would dismiss him as being not a good "scientist" (or are not a good thinking, because not critically-minded thinker).